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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] See full dictionary entry for lookExamples of 'to look the other way' in a sentenceto look the other way However, we have preferred to look the other way.It was best to look the other way.Not a single person pretends to look the other way.Many people believed they paid off frontline officers to look the other way.And it would be possible to look the other way.Often, all it takes is for people in authority to look the other way.But spammers need a way to communicate with these computers plus a web-hosting company willing to look the other way.What's even worse is that so many people knew this was going on and chose to look the other way.You could see her biting her tongue and would just have to look the other way.Somebody is trying to do a big, brave, right thing in politics — and the world wants to look the other way. |