look aside

look aside

To turn one's head away from someone or something. I looked aside as the coroner drew the covering back, unable to bring myself to look upon my poor friend's body. My father kept trying to catch my eye from the audience throughout the panel discussion, so I eventually had to look aside and act as if I hadn't noticed him.
See also: aside, look
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

look aside

to look to one side; to turn one's head aside so as not to see someone or something. As I approached, he looked aside, pretending not to recognize me. She looked aside, hoping I wouldn't see her.
See also: aside, look
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be replaced by (someone or something)
  • be replaced with (someone or something)
  • back home
  • be remembered as (something)
  • be remembered as/for something
  • (from) top to toe
  • at (one's) doorstep
  • at doorstep
  • at somebody's expense
  • at someone's expense
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That fact is itself emphatically conveyed by the particular phenomenon this treatment effects: No sooner are we riveted by the boy's gaze, which seems fixed before us, than we return from a fleeting look aside to realize he has vanished, as though into a black hole below the frame.
His staggering new look aside, the most important new development for George is his new record - the first proper studio album he has written with a full band in 18 years, picking up from Cheapness and Beauty in 1995.
concerns about its nuclear development without having to abandon the program." However, Dr Takeyh concludes that Iranian leadership sees no value in arms control agreements, having watched the international community look aside when Saddam Hussein's Iraq attacked his own countrymen with chemical weapons.
It is about corporate greed, and those who look aside from the unfortunate ones, and feed upon the toil of others.
In these days when 'political correctness' seems to have gone overboard, can we easily look aside when a child falls over and.:I am currently re-reading Book 1 of Recollections by Sir Algernon West, KCB, who was a Member of Parliament and a contemporary of Oscar Wilde.
IDT a communications IC company and the market and technology leader of network search engines (NSEs), has introduced the industry's first monolithic NSEs in 512Kx36 (18-Mbit) and 256Kx36 (9-Mbit) configurations with dual Network Processor Forum (NPF) Look Aside (LA-1) interfaces.
They would have us look aside while they impose patent regimes that reduce everything alive to commercial products that exist only to be bought, sold, and traded in a captive global marketplace.
In addition, the US is also likely to look aside when the leaders of Tashkent or Dushanbe decide to crack down on domestic opposition.
Rap, in its best moments -- beyond its easily criticized misogyny and sexism, its rampant immaturity and now overdone imitations, and what too often can amount to its sheer boredom in our day -- reveals an eye in public that looks back and does not look aside. What is in that eye, perhaps (as Sartre said about African possession cults) even without its human bearers fully realizing it?
assumed the twin tasks of self-determination and decolonization in 1960, the established lack of interest in Palestinian self-determination and status might have had the subsequent repercussion of signaling Israel that a rather free hand could be applied in administering the area, and that, as with Jordan, the international community would simply look aside. Several options to act on this matter through the General Assembly and inspired by resolutions passed on Namibia's behalf might also have been possible before the turn of events in 1967, though the international community chose to maintain the status quo.