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He turned a deaf ear to my request.
What does the underlined phrasal verb mean?
Answer: A
To turn a deaf ear to something means to ignore it.
The idiom pictures someone deliberately not listening, as if deaf on the side the request comes from. So 'He turned a deaf ear to my request' means he heard it and chose to take no notice.
'appreciated' is close to the opposite. 'twisted' would mean he distorted the request, and 'returned' that he sent it back; neither involves refusing to listen, which is the whole sense of the phrase.
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