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{
"forms": [
{
"form": "looks the other way",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "looking the other way",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "looked the other way",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "looked the other way",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "look the other way (third-person singular simple present looks the other way, present participle looking the other way, simple past and past participle looked the other way)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The policeman decided to look the other way when he realized the criminal’s act could benefit him.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To ignore something wrong; to connive (at), to turn a blind eye."
],
"id": "en-look_the_other_way-en-verb-Nl5l4C41",
"links": [
[
"ignore",
"ignore"
],
[
"wrong",
"wrong"
],
[
"connive",
"connive"
],
[
"turn a blind eye",
"turn a blind eye"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To ignore something wrong; to connive (at), to turn a blind eye."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "connive"
},
{
"word": "shut one's eyes"
},
{
"word": "wink"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "wegschauen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "wegsehen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "chiudere un occhio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "fare finta di nulla"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "guardare dall'altra parte"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "lasciare correre"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odwracać wzrok"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odwrócić wzrok"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "patrzeć przez palce"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "fazer vista grossa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы (smotrétʹ skvozʹ pálʹcy, literally “look through one's fingers”)",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "hacer la vista gorda"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "mirar para otro lado"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-look the other way.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/60/En-au-look_the_other_way.ogg/En-au-look_the_other_way.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/En-au-look_the_other_way.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "look the other way"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "looks the other way",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "looking the other way",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "looked the other way",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "looked the other way",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "look the other way (third-person singular simple present looks the other way, present participle looking the other way, simple past and past participle looked the other way)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The policeman decided to look the other way when he realized the criminal’s act could benefit him.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To ignore something wrong; to connive (at), to turn a blind eye."
],
"links": [
[
"ignore",
"ignore"
],
[
"wrong",
"wrong"
],
[
"connive",
"connive"
],
[
"turn a blind eye",
"turn a blind eye"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To ignore something wrong; to connive (at), to turn a blind eye."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "connive"
},
{
"word": "shut one's eyes"
},
{
"word": "wink"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-look the other way.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/60/En-au-look_the_other_way.ogg/En-au-look_the_other_way.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/En-au-look_the_other_way.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "wegschauen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "wegsehen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "chiudere un occhio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "fare finta di nulla"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "guardare dall'altra parte"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "lasciare correre"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odwracać wzrok"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odwrócić wzrok"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "patrzeć przez palce"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "fazer vista grossa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы (smotrétʹ skvozʹ pálʹcy, literally “look through one's fingers”)",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "hacer la vista gorda"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to ignore something wrong",
"word": "mirar para otro lado"
}
],
"word": "look the other way"
}
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