Citations:preach to deaf ears


 * 2002 —Edward M. Bennet, Separated by a Common Language: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Anglo-American Relations, 1933-1939, Writers Club Press, ISBN 9780595222926, page 126:
 * Roosevelt was tired of preaching to deaf ears. He was ready to try something else.
 * 2006 —Fred Stoeker & D. W. Smith, The Hunted, Waterbrook Press (2006), ISBN 9780307550682, page 57:
 * "I don't think he's ready to talk sense just yet," Mike said. "Can't preach to deaf ears.
 * 2007 — Birgit Nilsson, La Nilsson: My Life in Opera (trans. Doris Jung Popper), Northeastern University Press (2007), ISBN 9781555536701, page 32:
 * My silence caused him to yell at me saying he had no desire to preach to deaf ears but would make this one exception.