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Turn Blind Eye Ignore Impossible Problems Rudeness Worse

Idiom to turn a blind eye
Definition to ignore; to do nothing
Examples - I'm sorry. It's impossible to turn a blind eye when someone is having such problems.
- If you turn a blind eye to his rudeness, it's only going to get worse.
- Overall, however, what is significant is that the police initially turn a blind eye to the violence of the right wing.
- For anyone to turn a blind eye, as Novogrodsky did in his letter, to a few simple, quite obvious facts is to me inexcusable.

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