can't hear yourself think
Definition
› If you cannot hear yourself think, you cannot give your attention to anything because there is so much noise: There was so much noise in the classroom that I could hardly hear myself think.Noise and noisy
(Definition of can't hear yourself think from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
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