Origin of the phrase, 'Look the other way'?
Does anyone know the origin of the phrase, "look the other way"?
It is generally used today in any situation where one person allows something to happen without acting. They need non literally look the other way, so when and how did that non-literal usage come to be?
Solution 1:
Well it's not so much an idiom as just a straightly used phrase. If someone is about to do something wrong and you will see them do it, you can "look the other way", so that you deliberately ignore what they are doing.