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• Turned a deaf ear.

Disregarded.
• Take a back seat.
Choose to decrease involvement.

• Tables are turned.
When the tables are turned, the situation has changed giving the advantage to the party who had

previously been at a disadvantage.
• Take someone under your wing.
If you take someone under your wing, you look after them while they are learning something.

• Take your medicine.
If your take your medicine, you accept the consecuences of something you have done wrong.
• Talking to a brick wall.

If you talk to someone and they do not listen to you, it is like talking to a brick wall.
• Taste of your own medicine.

If you give someone a taste of their own medicine, you do something bad to someone that they have done
to you to teach them a lesson.
• The apple does not fall far from the tree.

Offspring grow up to be like their parents.
• Through thick and thin.

If someone supports you through thick and thin, they support you during good times and bad.

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