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Deaf as an adder. (See below, Deaf Adder.)
Deaf as a post. Quite deaf; or so inattentive as not to hear what is said. One might as well speak to a gate-post or log of wood.
Deaf as a white cat. It is said that white cats are deaf and stupid.
None so deaf as those who wonʹt hear. The French have the same locution: “Il nʹy a de pire sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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