"смотреть сквозь пальцы" meaning in Russian

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to look/watch through one's fingers"
      },
      "expansion": "“to look/watch through one's fingers”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to look/watch through one's fingers"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to look/watch through one's fingers”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to look/watch through one's fingers”.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smotrétʹ skvozʹ pálʹcy",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы",
        "2": "impf"
      },
      "expansion": "смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы • (smotrétʹ skvozʹ pálʹcy) impf",
      "name": "ru-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "смотреть"
      },
      "name": "ru-conj-verb-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He had never thought about this issue clearly but vaguely he could imagine that his wife has long realized that he is unfaithful to her, and turned a blind eye to it.",
          "ref": "1877, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina:",
          "roman": "Jásno on nikogdá ne obdúmyval étovo voprósa, no smútno jemú predstavljálosʹ, što žená davnó dogádyvajetsja, što on ne véren jej, i smótrit na éto skvozʹ pálʹcy.",
          "text": "Я́сно он никогда́ не обду́мывал э́того вопро́са, но сму́тно ему́ представля́лось, что жена́ давно́ дога́дывается, что он не ве́рен ей, и смо́трит на э́то сквозь па́льцы.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to turn a blind eye (to ignore or deliberately overlook)"
      ],
      "id": "en-смотреть_сквозь_пальцы-ru-verb-47ymf5mC",
      "links": [
        [
          "turn a blind eye",
          "turn a blind eye"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[smɐˈtrʲet͡sʲ skvosʲ ˈpalʲt͡sɨ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "смотреть сквозь пальцы"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to look/watch through one's fingers"
      },
      "expansion": "“to look/watch through one's fingers”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to look/watch through one's fingers"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to look/watch through one's fingers”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to look/watch through one's fingers”.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smotrétʹ skvozʹ pálʹcy",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы",
        "2": "impf"
      },
      "expansion": "смотре́ть сквозь па́льцы • (smotrétʹ skvozʹ pálʹcy) impf",
      "name": "ru-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "смотреть"
      },
      "name": "ru-conj-verb-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Russian imperfective verbs",
        "Russian lemmas",
        "Russian multiword terms",
        "Russian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Russian terms with quotations",
        "Russian verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He had never thought about this issue clearly but vaguely he could imagine that his wife has long realized that he is unfaithful to her, and turned a blind eye to it.",
          "ref": "1877, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina:",
          "roman": "Jásno on nikogdá ne obdúmyval étovo voprósa, no smútno jemú predstavljálosʹ, što žená davnó dogádyvajetsja, što on ne véren jej, i smótrit na éto skvozʹ pálʹcy.",
          "text": "Я́сно он никогда́ не обду́мывал э́того вопро́са, но сму́тно ему́ представля́лось, что жена́ давно́ дога́дывается, что он не ве́рен ей, и смо́трит на э́то сквозь па́льцы.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to turn a blind eye (to ignore or deliberately overlook)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "turn a blind eye",
          "turn a blind eye"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[smɐˈtrʲet͡sʲ skvosʲ ˈpalʲt͡sɨ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "смотреть сквозь пальцы"
}