TURN A BLIND EYE


Meaning of TURN A BLIND EYE in English

pretend not to notice. [said to be in allusion to Nelson, who lifted a telescope to his blind eye at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801), thus not seeing the signal to ‘discontinue the action’.]

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