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bury one's head in the sand



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Idioms and Phrases

see hide one's head in the sand .
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Put in this light, the response of quiet climate denialism—not disbelief in the phenomenon, but the choice to bury one’s head in the sand because thinking about it is too unpleasant—is not just untenable but childish.

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Walt, while taking pains to underscore that he is “most certainly not defending, excusing, or rationalizing” terrorism, nevertheless declares: “At the same time, to pretend that American and European actions have nothing whatsoever to do with this problem is to bury one’s head in the sand and ignore the obvious.”

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To deny the recent successes of the Affordable Care Act is to bury one’s head in the sand.

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To deny the validity of the life-style of such a large and increasingly vocal minority group is simply to bury one's head in the sand.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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