go in one ear and out the other

"I let the thought go in one ear and out the other."

But if you're anything like me, most of what I tell you is going to go in one ear and out the other.

So it must have gone in one ear and out the other the last time.

Even if you told her something like that it would go in one ear and out the other.

"Often it just goes in one ear and out the other," he said.

Whatever he tells me seems to go in one ear and out the other.

So what they say goes in one ear and out the other."

Teacher Song's sweet voice went in one ear and out the other.

This is going in one ear and out the other with Kline.

Despite having told them that, it's obviously gone in one ear and out the other ear.

Everything the fake prophet chanted went in one ear and out the other, as it does with anyone who has any sense.

I had that stuff in school, but it all went in one ear and out the other."

"The names of plants go in one ear and out the other, I'm afraid," she admitted cheerfully.

It went in one ear and out the other until he was ready to take it in.

Parents who talk to children about the risks of illicit drugs sometimes despair that their warning goes in one ear and out the other.

And when Scarlett took the trouble to listen to them at all, most of what they said went in one ear and out the other.

It was easy to let the words "be ready" go in one ear and out the other, Nachbar said.

He shook hands with dozens of people and tried to listen to the names, but they went in one ear and out the other.

But the hard part of communication is often figuring out how to make sure a message doesn't go in one ear and out the other.

"Maybe it would go in one ear and out the other, but at least it would be an alternative vision of life."

If I concentrated more on taking the notes, the class/lecture itself would go in one ear and out the other (stopping just long enough to be written down).

And they're going to shrink to the point where they're going to be almost nonproductive and things go in one ear and out the other.

I've been with Coach four years, and now all the cussin' and fussin' goes in one ear and out the other."

Billups said he had advised Marbury to be patient and to let Brown's criticisms "go in one ear and out the other."

By comparison, Dr. Roy said, the cautious pronouncements of many of Haiti's bishops "go in one ear and out the other."