fall on deaf ears• As rioting continued, MayorWarrenappealed for calm, but his words fell on deaf ears.• Those words fell on deaf ears.• His pleas for mercyfell on deaf ears.• The workers' demand for a wage increase has fallen on deaf ears.• Their requestsfell on deaf ears.• But my suggestionsfell on deaf ears.• Invitations by Paredes to the various governors to second his plan fell on deaf ears.• Pleas that the couple and their two young children will be homeless and facing financialruin have fallen on deaf ears.• Until Friday, such complaints appeared to fall on deaf ears at the Treasury.• They formulated a programme of demands, but these fell on deaf ears in Petrograd.• Arguments that some of the skills practised by pupils are obsoletefall on deaf ears, or are heeded only very slowly.