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What does turn a blind eye mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To ignore or deliberately overlook, especially with respect to something unpleasant or improper, to look the other way. To knowingly refuse to acknowledge something which you know to be real.
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Because they are up to their neck in it, the police and the politicians turn a blind eye.
Schools cannot continue to turn a blind eye in light of these new shocking statistics.
Let us not turn a blind eye towards them, just because there are other compensating considerations.
People will turn a blind eye for the first few bits, but I think there would come a point where even customers would become indignant.
Even if true, that hardly proves the point that we should continue to turn a blind eye to those who are cheating the system.
It is a problem people are prepared to turn a blind eye to it because people rarely notice these sites as they are covered over.

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