Why Turned a Blind Eye?

This expression is believed to come from the siege of Copenhagen (1801), in which Lord Horatio Nelson, second in command of the English fleet, was ordered to withdraw but pretended not to see the flagship's signals to do so by putting his glass to the eye that had been blinded in an earlier battle.

Is it good to turn a blind eye?

to ignore something that you know is wrong: Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace. ignoreThe buzzing is irritating, but try to ignore it. disregardHe disregarded the advice of his doctor and went back to work.

Why did Nelson turn a blind eye?

Turning a blind eye is an idiom describing the ignoring of undesirable information. ... When this order was brought to the more aggressive Nelson's attention, he lifted his telescope up to his blind eye, saying, "I have a right to be blind sometimes.