talk to a brick wall

talk to a brick wall (third-person singular simple present talks to a brick wall, present participle talking to a brick wall, simple past and past participle talked to a brick wall)

(idiomatic, colloquial) To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object.
She never listens. We might as well talk to a brickwall.

Chinese: 對牛彈琴 / 对牛弹琴 (zh) (duìniútánqín, literally “to play the guqin to a cow”)
Dutch: tegen een muur praten
Finnish: kaikua kuuroille korville (fi) (subject is the thing that is ignored or disregarded)
French: parler à un mur (fr)
German: gegen eine Wand reden (de)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 소 귀에 경 읽기 (so gwie gyeong ilgi, literally “reading verses to a cow”)
Polish: mówić jak do ściany (pl) impf
Portuguese: falar com as paredes (pt)
Romanian: vorbi cu pereții, vorbi singur
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can

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