"close one eye" meaning in English

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        "2": "close one's eyes"
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      "expansion": "close one's eyes",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare close one's eyes.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "closes one eye",
      "tags": [
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "closing one eye",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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      "form": "closed one eye",
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      "form": "closed one eye",
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      "args": {
        "1": "close<> one eye"
      },
      "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"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
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          "name": "Singapore English",
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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.\"",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression)."
      ],
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        [
          "look the other way",
          "look the other way"
        ],
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          "ignore",
          "ignore"
        ],
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          "overlook",
          "overlook"
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          "transgression",
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        "(Malaysia, Singapore, idiomatic) to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression)."
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  "word": "close one eye"
}

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        "2": "close one's eyes"
      },
      "expansion": "close one's eyes",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare close one's eyes.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "closes one eye",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closing one eye",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closed one eye",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closed one eye",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "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.\"",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression)."
      ],
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          "look the other way",
          "look the other way"
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          "ignore",
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          "overlook",
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          "transgression",
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        "(Malaysia, Singapore, idiomatic) to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression)."
      ],
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        "Singapore",
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  "word": "close one eye"
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