close one's eyes to

Also, shut one eyes to. Deliberately ignore, refuse to notice. For example, Jill closed her eyes to the danger and pushed off downhill, or The professor shut her eyes to students who read a book during her lecture. [Early 1700s] For a synonym see turn a blind eye.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Avice	AY-vis	English (Rare)
Ferenc	FE-rents	Hungarian
Nydia	NID-ee-ə (English)	English (Rare), Spanish, Literature
Pelagia	pe-LAHG-yah (Polish)	Ancient Greek, Greek, Polish
Bogdan	BAWG-dahn (Polish), BOG-dahn (Serbian, Croatian), bog-DAHN (Romanian)	Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic
Cosma	-	Italian