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Go in one ear and out the other
Verb
Definitions
1.
Verb
To be heard but not attended to, when a person fails to pay attention.
"He told me whom he saw, but it went in one ear and out the other."
Synonyms
listen with half an ear
see with half an eye
insonicate
do by halves
do what i say, not what i do
handwave
go through the motions
monotone
go both ways
put a civil tongue in one's head
phone in
keep a civil tongue in one's mouth
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