See close one eye on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Compare close one's eyes.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "closes one eye",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "closing one eye",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "closed one eye",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "closed one eye",
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"past"
]
}
],
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},
"expansion": "close one eye (third-person singular simple present closes one eye, present participle closing one eye, simple past and past participle closed one eye)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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},
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2019 November, Stella Ko, “Photographer subverts Singapore's 'sterile' reputation by capturing dream-like images of the city-state”, in CNN:",
"text": "\"It's also a distinctly Singaporean trait to carry on with whatever you can get away with,\" he added. \"As long as the authorities close one eye.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression)."
],
"id": "en-close_one_eye-en-verb-dqamaCHT",
"links": [
[
"look the other way",
"look the other way"
],
[
"ignore",
"ignore"
],
[
"overlook",
"overlook"
],
[
"transgression",
"transgression"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Malaysia, Singapore, idiomatic) to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression)."
],
"tags": [
"Malaysia",
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]
}
],
"word": "close one eye"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Compare close one's eyes.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "closes one eye",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "closing one eye",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "closed one eye",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "closed one eye",
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"past"
]
}
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"ref": "2019 November, Stella Ko, “Photographer subverts Singapore's 'sterile' reputation by capturing dream-like images of the city-state”, in CNN:",
"text": "\"It's also a distinctly Singaporean trait to carry on with whatever you can get away with,\" he added. \"As long as the authorities close one eye.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression)."
],
"links": [
[
"look the other way",
"look the other way"
],
[
"ignore",
"ignore"
],
[
"overlook",
"overlook"
],
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"transgression",
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],
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"(Malaysia, Singapore, idiomatic) to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression)."
],
"tags": [
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"Singapore",
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]
}
],
"word": "close one eye"
}
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