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turn a blind eye to
Idioms and Phrases
Deliberately overlook, ignore, as in She decided to turn a blind eye to her roommate's goings-on . This expression is believed to come from the siege of Copenhagen (1801), in which Lord Horatio Nelson, second in command of the English fleet, was ordered to withdraw but pretended not to see the flagship's signals to do so by putting his glass to the eye that had been blinded in an earlier battle. His attack led to a major victory. Also see turn a deaf ear .Example Sentences
"Israel actually gave more than a year to the international community to clean out this organisation, but it didn't. It tried to sweep it under the rug and turn a blind eye to breaching the law of neutrality," Haskell says.
Wendy Park, an attorney at the center, said “communities in the Uinta Basin and the Gulf Coast will suffer the most from this oil railroad, while oil companies enrich themselves at the expense of the environment and people’s health. It’s disgraceful the railroad’s backers want federal agencies to turn a blind eye to those harms.”
The evidence is overwhelming, yet, the COI chooses once again to turn a blind eye to Hamas’ strategy of abusing civilian infrastructure and using the Palestinian population as human shields.”
"The international community should not turn a blind eye to such crimes!"
They are a good team and we don't turn a blind eye to that.
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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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