intransitive. To omit or skip over something; to leave something undone.

to hide one's face: (a) in Biblical language, to turn away or withdraw one's eyes, take no heed. (Also to hide one's ear, oneself.) (b) = sense…

intransitive. To look obliquely or to the side; to direct one's gaze away from something. Hence occasionally: to overlook or ignore something…

intransitive. To overlook, disregard, fail to see.

to hear of both ears: to hear both sides, be impartial. not to hear of that ear: to be wilfully obtuse on a certain subject, ‘to be deaf on that…

intransitive. to look through one's (also the) fingers: to contrive or pretend not to see or notice something; (also) to see indistinctly. Also with…

transitive. to pull away the shoulder: (with allusion to Zechariah 7:11: see quot. 1560) to turn a deaf ear, to turn away. Obsolete.

intransitive. To shut one's eyes to a thing that one dislikes but cannot help, to pretend ignorance, to take no notice. Const. at. archaic.

to turn a (also †the) blind eye: to refuse to take any notice of a situation, state of affairs, etc.; (more recently also) to pretend not to notice…

In various metaphorical and similative uses. to bury (or hide) one's head in the sand (and allusive variants): to ignore unpleasant realities.

a blind eye. Usually figurative, esp. in to turn a nelson's eye to. Cf. eye, n.1 phrases 2t.

not to want to know: (a) to show no interest; to be unwilling to take notice or get involved; (b) to act as if one is unacquainted with, to refuse to…