Turn A Blind Eye

Definition: Turn A Blind Eye

Turn A Blind Eye

Verb

1. Refuse to acknowledge; "He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

I'd like to come to work for you, and in turn, I'd like you to turn a blind eye to what I have to do. (Road to Perdition; writing credit: Max Allan Collins; Richard Piers Rayner)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "turn a blind eye": turn a blind eye on smth. ♦ turn a blind eye to ♦ turn a blind eye to smth.. Additional references.

Albanian

nuk vërej. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غض النظر عن, ‏غض الطرف عن. (various references)

Bulgarian 

затварям си очите (connive, go blind oneself, run away, stretch a point, turn a blind eye to, turn against), правя се че не виждам (cut, turn a blind eye to). (various references)

Chinese 

視而不見 (turn a blind eye to). (various references)

Czech

přimhouřit nad èím oko (turn a blind eye on smth.). (various references)

Finnish

katsoa läpi sormien (turn a blind eye to, wink). (various references)

French

fermer les yeux, avoir honte. (various references)

German

ein Auge zudrücken (to turn a blind eye). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω πως δεν βλέπω (look the other way, turn a blind eye to), κάνω τα στραβά μάτια (look the other way, turn a blind eye to). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עלים עין (connive, overlook). (various references)

Hungarian

szemet huny (connive, to connive at sg). (various references)

Pig Latin

urntay aay indblay eyeay

Portuguese

ignorar (bypass, disregard, dissemble, ignore, leave out, turn a blind eye to). (various references)

Russian 

смотреть сквозь пальцы (condone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

progledati kroz prste. (various references)

Spanish

hacer la vista gorda a (turn a blind eye to). (various references)

Swedish

se genom fingrarna med (overlook, shut one's eyes to, turn a blind eye to, turn a blind eye to smth.). (various references)

Turkish

görmemezlikten gelmek (blink, blink at, close one's eyes to, connive, cut, cut smb. dead, dissemble, give smb. the go-by, look through, overlook, overpass, pass off, pretend not to see, wink at). (various references)

coierit, coierunt, coniventes. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: unliberated.

-3 letters: adulterine, undeniable, undeniably.

-4 letters: blarneyed, breadline, butadiene, endurable, endurably, entrained, eruditely, indenture, interlend, interlude, liberated, retinulae, tailender, tenurable, turbanned, unaltered, underlain, underline, unlearned, unreality, unrelated, unridable, untenable, untrained.

-5 letters: adultery, antlered, ardently, auntlier, banditry, bannered, banneret, bantered, beryline, betrayed, bidental, biennale, bilander, binately, braunite, breadnut, buntline, butylene, dateline, denature, deniable, deniably, dentinal.