- a puff of wind passing the ear -- unheeded advice; go in at one ear and out at [of] the other; be disregarded; flit by like a breeze; like water off a duck's back; a matter of no concern:
let sth. in at one ear and out the other; turn a deaf ear to sth.;
当作耳边风
My repeated warnings to her went in one ear and out the other.
她把我对她的一再警告当作耳边风。