close one eye
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare close one's eyes.
Verb edit
close one eye (third-person singular simple present closes one eye, present participle closing one eye, simple past and past participle closed one eye)
- (Malaysia, Singapore, idiomatic) to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression).
- 2019 November, Stella Ko, “Photographer subverts Singapore's 'sterile' reputation by capturing dream-like images of the city-state”, in CNN[1]:
- "It's also a distinctly Singaporean trait to carry on with whatever you can get away with," he added. "As long as the authorities close one eye."