turn a blind eye

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   refuse to acknowledge

   “He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office”

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Questions about turn a blind eye

What does turn a blind eye mean?

turn a blind eye means "refuse to acknowledge".

Is turn a blind eye a common word?

turn a blind eye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.