JLPT N3Idioms

目をつぶる

Meaning
悪い点を知りながら見逃してやる
Explanation
「目をつぶる」 means to deliberately pretend not to have seen and to forgive, even though one has noticed something bad. It is also used to mean literally closing one's eyes, but as an idiom it expresses the feeling of 「letting it slide」.
Original Japanese explanation

「目をつぶる」は、悪いところに気づいていても、わざと見なかったことにして許すという意味です。本当に目を閉じることにも使いますが、慣用句では「見逃してやる」気持ちを表します。

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