fiddle while Rome burns
to enjoy yourself or continue working as normal and not give any attention to something important and unpleasant that is happening that you should be taking action to prevent:
Environmentalists claimed governments were fiddling while Rome burned.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Neglecting and ignoring
- beneath the/sb's radar idiom
- block sth out
- brush sth off
- bury/have your head in the sand idiom
- bypass
- lay
- look straight/right through sb idiom
- lost
- lost in the shuffle idiom
- moulder
- neglect
- push
- ride
- snub
- step
- step on sb
- sweep sth aside
- there's none so deaf as those who will not hear idiom
- tune
- wave
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