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close one's eyes to



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, shut one eyes to . Deliberately ignore, refuse to notice. For example, Jill closed her eyes to the danger and pushed off downhill , or The professor shut her eyes to students who read a book during her lecture . [Early 1700s] For a synonym see turn a blind eye .

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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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