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单词 to look the other way
释义

to look the other way

phrase [VERB inflects]
If you say that someone looks the other way, you are critical of them because they pay no attention to something unpleasant that is happening, when they should be dealing with it properly.
[disapproval]
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Examples of 'to look the other way' in a sentence
to look the other way

However, we have preferred to look the other way.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It was best to look the other way.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Not a single person pretends to look the other way.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Many people believed they paid off frontline officers to look the other way.
The Sun (2014)
And it would be possible to look the other way.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Often, all it takes is for people in authority to look the other way.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But spammers need a way to communicate with these computers plus a web-hosting company willing to look the other way.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
What's even worse is that so many people knew this was going on and chose to look the other way.
The Sun (2012)
You could see her biting her tongue and would just have to look the other way.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Somebody is trying to do a big, brave, right thing in politics — and the world wants to look the other way.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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