{"id":17125,"date":"2019-02-10T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/?p=17125"},"modified":"2019-02-10T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T22:53:21","slug":"english-phrase-of-the-day-turn-a-blind-eye-to-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/english-phrase-of-the-day-turn-a-blind-eye-to-something\/","title":{"rendered":"English phrase of the day: Turn a blind eye to something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUcD2C1f7Iw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">Hello students! Today\u2019s phrase of the day is <strong>turn a blind eye to something<\/strong>. I read it in an article, where the writer said the government should not turn a blind eye to the crimes of certain politicians. What does this mean? To turn a blind eye to something means to ignore it on purpose. It\u2019s not that you don\u2019t know about it&#8230; you DO know about it, and you know it\u2019s wrong or bad, but you choose to pretend you don\u2019t notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">People can turn a blind eye to something for a few reasons &#8211; one is that they don\u2019t want to get involved. Let\u2019s say you have a manager at work who hates confronting people. If one of your co- workers is doing a bad job, the manager might turn a blind eye to it because of his fear of confrontation. He intentionally ignores the bad work because he doesn\u2019t want<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">Another possible reason for turning a blind eye to something is if you think the bad thing isn\u2019t so serious. For example, when my brother and I were kids, we each had a limit of 30 minutes of computer games per day. Sometimes we\u2019d play for longer than 30 minutes, but my parents would often turn a blind eye to it &#8211; they knew we were going over the limit, but they chose to ignore it because it wasn\u2019t a big deal and we usually didn\u2019t go very far over the limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">I hope these examples have been helpful. 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Today\u2019s phrase of the day is turn a blind eye to something. I read it in an article, where the writer said the government should not turn a blind eye to the crimes of certain politicians. What does this mean? To turn a blind eye to something means to ignore it on purpose. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>English phrase of the day: Turn a blind eye to something - Espresso English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello students! Today\u2019s phrase of the day is turn a blind eye to something. 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