are you deaf

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Phrase

are you deaf?

  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see are,‎ you,‎ deaf.
  2. (idiomatic, sarcastic) A rhetorical question asked to confront a nondeaf interlocutor who has been rudely neglecting to hear something.
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