deaf as a doorpost
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deaf as a doorpost (not comparable)
- (simile) stone deaf (unable to hear at all)
- 2003, David Farland, The Lair of Bones, Macmillan, page 203:
- And grandmother sat in her rocker before the fireplace, deaf as a doorpost and half-blind as well.
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stone deaf — see stone deaf