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close one's eyes to something and shut one's eyes to something 

1. Lit. to close one's eyes to avoid seeing something unpleasant. I had to close my eyes to the carnage about me. I couldn't bear to look.

2. Fig. to ignore something; to pretend that something is not happening. Maria simply shut her eyes to the bad morale in her department.

See also: close, eye

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.