When another four woodcock flushed within five feet of the pup's nose, she yipped sharply and streaked off like a white rocket, stone-deaf to the whistle blasts rending the air after her.
There are those who will remain stone-deaf to this call, those who will insist that Henson's reputation should go before him, that involving him again would be more hassle than it's worth.
IMAGINE you are in the throes of a heated argument with your mate when, suddenly, his eyes glaze over and he turns stone-deaf. Since he is not listening to what is bugging you, you turn up the volume, hoping to blast the wax from his ears, but it is no use.