TURN A BLIND EYE (TO STH)

Meaning of TURN A BLIND EYE (TO STH) in English

to pretend not to notice sth bad that is happening, so you do not have to do anything about it

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

EYE — I Organ that receives light and visual images. Non-image forming, or direction, eyes are found among worms, mollusks, cnidarians, echinoderms, …
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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 …
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BLIND — I. ˈblīnd adjective ( usually -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German blint blind, …
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STH — abbreviation somatotropic hormone
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STH — abbreviation south
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EYE — — eyeable , adj. — eyelike , adj. — eyer , n. /uy/ , n. , pl. eyes , ( …
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BLIND — — blindingly , adv. — blindness , n. /bluynd/ , adj., blinder, blindest , v., n., adv. adj. 1. unable …
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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 …
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BLIND — I. ˈblīnd adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German blint blind, Old English blandan to …
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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 …
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BLIND — noun a halting place. 2. blind ·adj undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. 3. blind ·noun ·alt. of blinde. 4. blind ·noun a …
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STH — ■ abbreviation south.
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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] …
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BLIND — [blind] adj [ME, fr. OE; akin to OHG blint blind, OE blandan to mix--more at blend] (bef. 12c) 1 a …
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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 …
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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BLIND — / blaɪnd; NAmE / adjective , verb , noun , adverb ■ adjective ( blind·er , blind·est ) 1. not …
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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 …
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BLIND — I. blind 1 S2 W3 /blaɪnd/ BrE AmE adjective [ Language: Old English ] 1 . UNABLE TO SEE a) …
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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 …
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BLIND — adj., v., n., & adv. --adj. 1 lacking the power of sight. 2 a without foresight, discernment, intellectual perception, or …
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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 …
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BLIND — adj., v., n., & adv. adj. 1 lacking the power of sight. 2 a without foresight, discernment, intellectual perception, or …
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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 …
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BLIND — adj., v., n., & adv. --adj. 1. lacking the power of sight. 2 a without foresight, discernment, intellectual perception, or …
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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. …
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BLIND — ( blinds, blinding, blinded) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone who …
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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 ) …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 , …
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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, …
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BLIND — n. 25B6; adjective he has been blind since birth : SIGHTLESS, unsighted, visually impaired, visionless, unseeing; partially sighted, purblind; informal …
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BLIND — adj. 1 sightless, eyeless, unsighted, purblind, stone-blind He has been blind from birth 2 imperceptive, slow, insensitive, thick, dense, obtuse, …
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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 …
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BLIND — adjective 1 BAD : Some people become blind with the disease. GOOD : Some people go blind with the disease. …
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STH — сокр. [sidetracked hole] скважина с боковым стволом
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STH — сокр. [sidetracked hole] скважина с боковым стволом
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BLIND — I 1. прил. 1) о неспособности видеть а) слепой; ослепленный (перманентно или временно, значения прямое и переносное) He was blinded …
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BLIND — blind.ogg 1. blaınd n 1. штора, маркиза; жалюзи ( тж. Venetian blind); ставень lower /pull down/ the blinds - опустите …
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