phrasal verb với động từ gốc · neutral
look the other way
UK/lʊk ðə ˈʌðə weɪ/US/lʊk ði ˈʌðər weɪ/LOOK·the·other·WAY
to deliberately ignore something bad or inappropriate instead of dealing with it
Examples
“Many local officials looked the other way while the factory dumped waste.”
“Parents sometimes look the other way when siblings argue over small things.”
“It is unacceptable for a company to look the other way if it knows its products are unsafe.”
Band 8 sentence
“Governments that repeatedly look the other way in the face of industrial pollution eventually face public outrage and legal consequences.”
Collocations
- look the other way when
- look the other way at
Word family
Common mistakes
look away→look the other way
turn the other way→look the other way
Say it for a higher band
5ignore→6turn a blind eye to→7+look the other way
Synonyms
turn a blind eye to
ignore
Easily confused
look away
“When the accident happened, many passersby looked away.”
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