close your eyes to

close your eyes to
close/shut (your) eyes to (something) to pretend that something bad does not exist because you do not want to deal with it.

She was besotted with him and closed her eyes to his character defects.

You can't just shut your eyes to your problems and hope that they'll go away.


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