look the other way

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to deliberately avoid seeing sb / sth

   Then you can look the other way.

   ...that it doesn't exist, no matter who orders him to look the other way.

In the movies · 9

• Then you can look the other way.Wrath of Man2021
• Find a way to The Capitol when everybody's looking the other way.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 22015
• just looks the other way.Spotlight2015
• he didn t look the other way GROANSAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania2023
• I paid you to look the other way.Samaritan2022
• ...that it doesn't exist, no matter who orders him to look the other way.Watchmen2009
• Marina? Marina's looking the other way.Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas2003
• Guy running against me is going door-to-door telling folk I look the other way when it comes to Sandy.The Devil All the Time2020

Learn it in full scenes

• Wrath of Man2021
  • H's Fortico Interview and Training
  • H Meets the Fortico Crew
  • H's First Day on the Cash Truck
• Spotlight2015
  • Baron Meets Robinson for a Drink
  • Marty Baron's First News Meeting
  • Lawyers Break Down the Geoghan Case

From the same entry

• across the way
• all the way
• always the way
• any way you slice it
• be born made that way
• be set in your ways
• by the way
• by way of
• by way of the way of
• come your way
• cut both ways
• either way

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• that will do
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• go from bad to worse
• go the extra mile
• in effect