turn a deaf ear to
先程と同じニュース中から落ち穂拾いをします。
turn a deaf ear toが気になりましたので取り上げます。早速辞書を引いて調べてみますと「（（略式））＜要請＞に少しも耳を貸さない」（『ジーニアス英和辞典 第３版』大修館）と載っており、Oxford Dictionaries Onlineには’ refuse to listen or respond to a statement or request’と掲載されていました。
Nairobi shopping mall attacks: Britons 'undoubtedly' caught up in terrorist assault
At least 39 people have been killed and 150 injured after a gang of Islamic terrorists stormed an upmarket Kenyan shopping mall with guns and grenades and started executing non-Muslims.
A Twitter feed, reportedly run by al-Shabaab, last night said that the Kenyan government “turned a deaf ear to our repeated warnings and continued to massacre innocent Muslims in Somalia”. The account was later suspended.
