Definition of "turn a blind eye" [turn a blind eye]

• To ignore or deliberately overlook, especially with respect to something unpleasant or improper. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Kinshasa will turn a blind eye provided it gets a piece of the action, which in this case means the People's Portion."
• "It was no longer allowing me to dissociate and turn a blind eye to my behavior, my decisions, or my past."
• "To suggest that our racial attitudes play no part in these disparities is to turn a blind eye to both our history and our experience-and to relieve ourselves of the responsibility to make things right."