Deaf as a post

Origin of: Deaf as a post

Deaf as a post

Obviously, there is little point in talking to a wooden post or any other inanimate object, hence the expression as deaf as a post which dates from the 16th century and is first recorded in Acolastus (1540) by John Palsgrave. “How deaf an ear I intended to give him, he were as good to tell his tale to a post.”