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Deaf as a post   /dɛf æz ə poʊst/   Listen
Deaf as a post

adjective
1.
Totally deaf; unable to hear anything.  Synonyms: profoundly deaf, stone-deaf, unhearing.






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"Deaf as a post" Quotes from Famous Books



... don't want any seconds. Don't you worry about any seconds. I shall send word to your friends to come and bury you when I am done. And if you want any witnesses, I'll send word to the old girl to put her head out of a window at the back. Stay! There's the gardener. He'll do. He's as deaf as a post, but he has two eyes in his head. Come along! I will teach you, my staff officer, that the carrying about of a general's orders is not ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Deaf as a post" :   profoundly deaf, unhearing, deaf, stone-deaf



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