TURN A BLIND EYE

Meaning of TURN A BLIND EYE in English

ignore, pay no attention

Explanatory English dictionary bed edition. Толковый словарь английского языка Редакция bed. 2012

TURN A BLIND EYE — phrasal to refuse to see ; be oblivious
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TURN A BLIND EYE — phrasal : to refuse to see : be oblivious might turn a blind eye to the use of violence — …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TURN A BLIND EYE — : to refuse to see : be oblivious might turn a blind eye to the use of violence — Arthur …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TURN A BLIND EYE — to refuse to see : be oblivious <might turn a blind eye to the use of violence ― Arthur Krock>
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
TURN A BLIND EYE — pretend not to notice. [said to be in allusion to Nelson, who lifted a telescope to his blind eye at …
Concise Oxford English vocab
TURN A BLIND EYE — see blind
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TURN A BLIND EYE — see blind
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
TURN A BLIND EYE — {v. phr.} To pretend not to see; not pay attention. * /The corrupt police chief turned a blind eye to …
Slang English vocab
TURN A BLIND EYE — See ↑ IGNORE 3
Longman Activator English vocab
TURN A BLIND EYE — {v. phr.} To pretend not to see; not pay attention. * /The corrupt police chief turned a blind eye to …
Словарь английских идиом
TURN A BLIND EYE — see a problem but not act, look the other way The teacher knows that I come in late, but she …
English Idioms vocab
TURN A BLIND EYE — see a problem but not act, look the other way The teacher knows that I come in late, but she …
English Idioms vocabulary
TURN A BLIND EYE — v. phr. To pretend not to see; not pay attention. The corrupt police chief turned a blind eye to the …
American Idioms English vocabulary
TURN A BLIND EYE — закрывать глаза, смотреть сквозь пальцы
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TURN A BLIND EYE — закрывать глаза, смотреть сквозь пальцы
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
TURN A BLIND EYE — смотреть сквозь пальцы (на...)
Англо-Русский словарь идиом
EYE — I Organ that receives light and visual images. Non-image forming, or direction, eyes are found among worms, mollusks, cnidarians, echinoderms, …
Английский словарь Британика
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
EYE — I. ˈī noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English eie, eye, eighe, from Old English ēage; akin to Old High …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BLIND — I. ˈblīnd adjective ( usually -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German blint blind, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EYE — — eyeable , adj. — eyelike , adj. — eyer , n. /uy/ , n. , pl. eyes , ( …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIND — — blindingly , adv. — blindness , n. /bluynd/ , adj., blinder, blindest , v., n., adv. adj. 1. unable …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
EYE — I. ˈī noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ēage; akin to Old High German ouga eye, Latin oculus, Greek …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BLIND — I. ˈblīnd adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German blint blind, Old English blandan to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Webster English vocab
EYE — noun tinge; shade of color. 2. eye ·noun a brood; as, an eye of pheasants. 3. eye ·noun the hole …
Webster English vocab
BLIND — noun a halting place. 2. blind ·adj undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. 3. blind ·noun ·alt. of blinde. 4. blind ·noun a …
Webster English vocab
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Merriam-Webster English vocab
EYE — [eye] n [ME, fr. OE eage; akin to OHG ouga eye, L oculus, Gk ops eye, face, Skt aksi eye] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BLIND — [blind] adj [ME, fr. OE; akin to OHG blint blind, OE blandan to mix--more at blend] (bef. 12c) 1 a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
EYE — specialized sensory organ capable of light reception and, in vertebrate animals, able to receive visual images that are then carried …
Britannica English vocabulary
BLIND — blind BrE AmE blaɪnd ▷ blinded ˈblaɪnd ɪd -əd ▷ blinder ˈblaɪnd ə AmE \ - ə r ▷ blindest …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BLIND — / blaɪnd; NAmE / adjective , verb , noun , adverb ■ adjective ( blind·er , blind·est ) 1. not …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
EYE — I. eye 1 S1 W1 /aɪ/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: eage ] 1 . FOR …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BLIND — I. blind 1 S2 W3 /blaɪnd/ BrE AmE adjective [ Language: Old English ] 1 . UNABLE TO SEE a) …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Английский основной разговорный словарь
EYE — n. & v. --n. 1 a the organ of sight in man and other animals. b the light-detecting organ in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BLIND — adj., v., n., & adv. --adj. 1 lacking the power of sight. 2 a without foresight, discernment, intellectual perception, or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EYE — n. & v. n. 1 a the organ of sight in man and other animals. b the light-detecting organ in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BLIND — adj., v., n., & adv. adj. 1 lacking the power of sight. 2 a without foresight, discernment, intellectual perception, or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
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Oxford English vocab
EYE — n. & v. --n. 1. a the organ of sight in man and other animals. b the light-detecting organ in …
Oxford English vocab
BLIND — adj., v., n., & adv. --adj. 1. lacking the power of sight. 2 a without foresight, discernment, intellectual perception, or …
Oxford English vocab
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EYE — ( eyes, eyeing, or eying, eyed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BLIND — ( blinds, blinding, blinded) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone who …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BLIND — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a blind bend (= that you cannot see around when you are driving ) …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
EYE — [noun] [C] - one of the pair of organs of seeing in the faces of humans and animalsThey hoped the …
Cambridge English vocab
BLIND — [plural] [noun]The blind are people who are unable to see.She trains guide dogs for the blind .(A case of) the …
Cambridge English vocab
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BLIND — Synonyms and related words : ableptical, abstruse, alibi, amaurotic, ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, amorphous, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, automatic, awning, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
EYE — See: APPLE OF ONE'S EYE, BAT AN EYE or BAT AN EYELASH, BELIEVE ONE'S EYES, CATCH ONE'S EYE, CLEAR-EYED, CLOSE …
Slang English vocab
BLIND — I. noun ⇨ See also ↑ shade ADJECTIVE ▪ window ▪ roller , venetian VERB + BLIND ▪ open , …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
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Longman Activator English vocab
TURN — n. 25B6; verb the wheels were still turning : GO ROUND, revolve, rotate, spin, roll, circle, wheel, whirl, gyrate, swivel, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BLIND — n. 25B6; adjective he has been blind since birth : SIGHTLESS, unsighted, visually impaired, visionless, unseeing; partially sighted, purblind; informal …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary

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