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Today's expression number 189.
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That's cool. Today's expression is to fall on deaf ears.
To fall on deaf ears. To fall.
F-A-L-L-A-Fall on ON. Deaf.
D-E-A-F. Deaf means unable to hear.
In the last word, ears, E-A-R-S.
Do you have any ears? Of course you do.
You have two ears, right?
Maybe your hearing is perfect, but maybe your hearing is not so good.
Maybe you can't hear so well out of your right ear or your left ear.
In that case you could say, oh my right ear, E-A-R, is a little deaf.
It's a little deaf. It can hear, but not perfectly.
My left ear is very good, very good at hearing.
But if you cannot hear at all, then your ears are deaf or you are deaf, D-E-A-F.
Deaf, D-E-A-T-H, no, no, no, just deaf.
Do you know somebody who is deaf?
I do. I have a cousin who is deaf, but you would not know it because she's able to read lips.
So when you speak to her, she almost always understands.
So we have the idiom to fall on deaf ears, and it's a great idiom.
And basically, and I'm going to tell you exactly what it means after you check out the dialogue.
And I'm going to tell you exactly what it means after the dialogue.
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Now to the dialogue. Did you tell them how to raise chickens?
Yeah. But it fell on deaf ears.
They think they know everything already.
Great dialogue. Real life.
So, you know, you know what a chicken is, of course, right?
Do you like chickens? Do you like eggs or do you like the birds or maybe do you like chicken meats?
Yeah. Well, if you can raise chickens, that means have chickens at home, not in your house, but outside.
If you have chickens, then you can have free eggs.
Because yes, how excellent is that?
But in order to do that, you need to have healthy chickens.
So you need to know how to raise our AISE to care for chickens.
So the dialogue is, did you tell them how to raise chickens?
And the guy says, ah, yeah.
So if we listen, we can understand, yes, I did, but.
So the other guy says, but.
And finally, it fell on deaf ears.
I told them how to raise chickens, but what I said, it fell on deaf ears.
If something falls on deaf ears, the person who is supposed to be listening or paying attention is not listening.
They're not paying attention.
They're not listening to you.
They don't care what you're saying.
Or even if they listen to you or hear you, they don't care.
They're not going to respond.
They're not going to pay attention.
So this is really frustrating, right?
If you give somebody advice, if you try to help somebody, if you try to teach somebody, but they ignore you, they don't take your advice.
They don't listen to your words.
Ah, you wasted time, your words, your advice, your wisdom, your experience fell on deaf ears.
It's as though the person were deaf.
Actually they can hear, but they're not hearing you.
They're not listening to you.
This is a really great idiom.
It's a fantastic expression.
This is the type of thing you learn when you join DTM.
You can open a book or you can open a YouTube video or a podcast like this and you can learn the expression to fall on deaf ears.
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You're not going to know exactly what this expression means.
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That's it for this expression to fall on deaf ears.
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Let's check out the dialogues two more times and together, let's master English.
Did you tell them how to raise chickens?
Yeah, but it fell on deaf ears.
They think they know everything already.
Did you tell them how to raise chickens?
Yeah, but it fell on deaf ears.
