On these occasions the Chairman is wise to turn a deaf ear to the interruption.
At the end, between lengthy visits to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and crippled with arthritis as a result of a youthful bicycle accident, he turned a deaf ear to opposition calls to resign after losing his majority.
The owners turned a deaf ear to such an expensive demand.
I can assure you that there are very great people at the bottom of the riot. Next day, when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields, he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance; and when the rioters’ work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes.