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Fill in the blank with the appropriate preposition: 'The judge was deaf ___ the lawyer's pleas.'

AOn
BWith
COf
DTo
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. To
'Deaf to' is the idiomatic prepositional collocation meaning 'unresponsive to'. The other prepositions do not pair with 'deaf' in this metaphorical sense.
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