Turn a blind eye

If you are blind in one eye, that's the eye that you turn toward something you don't want to see.
Your other eye is perfectly capable of seeing. So this has to do with pretending not to see by speaking of an eye that is blind and, by implication, an eye that is not blind.

If you keep an eye on someone, you don't look at them with both eyes. Then they would know that you are watch

Can u give me some examples.

I am not able to reach what is turn a blind eye..

Thanks in advance

King

Welcome to English Forums, Kingsingh.

'The referee turned a blind eye to the player's fouls on the field.' -- the referee chose to ignore the fouls for some reason: perhaps to keep the game in action.

'The mother turned a blind eye to her child's faults, even though the teacher repeatedly complained of poor classroom behaviour.' -- the mother refused to acknowledge her child's

Thanks for CJ's excellent explanations. I got it.
And also thanks for Mr. M's contributions. I appreciate it.

There is a theory that 'turn a blind eye' is an allusion to Nelson's action at the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, where he supposedly disobeyed his superior's signal to disengage by putting his blind eye to his telescope and saying 'I really do not see the signal'.

That said, I don't know how true it is. Nelson is often associated with the phrase when it turns up in BrE newspaper article

Well, what an interesting story! Did Nelson get any punishment?

Thanks for your input.

Hello MtoL

Oddly enough, he was made a viscount...

Here is the relevant passage from Southey's Life of Nelson:

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