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background noise

Flag: gbEnglishOxford New American Dictionary

background noise
noun extraneous sound which can be heard while listening to or monitoring other sounds:
the background noise overwhelms any dialogue.
a person or thing considered to be irrelevant or incidental to the main issue or situation:
she is nothing but background noise in the story
it's the basics that make our lives meaningful, the rest is just background noise.