Talk:Turning a blind eye

If the eye is blind, why do you have to turn it? 155.212.44.58 20:51, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Because you're (metaphorically) turning the blind eye TOWARDS the thing you're delibrately ignoring. In other words, only looking at it with your blind eye, thus not seeing it. 63.21.22.40 06:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Would "UNODIR" go under "related topics"?

Would UNODIR (unless otherwise directed...) operations be considered a related topic? Or "Command by Negation"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_by_negation

UNODIR was popularized by navy SEALS in Vietnam where, due to high amount of operational leaks, they started asking for where they can't go or what they can't do within a large area, and they file UNODIR reports that reads "unless otherwise directly, this unit shall conduct search and destroy in areas X, Y, and Z for period of ______" so even if this is leaked it is of no operational use to the spies. Kschang77 (talk) 22:56, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Contradiction between this and Battle of Copenhagen

See here here. Esszet (talk) 02:54, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

• This issue seems to have been resolved, so I removed the contradiction tag... Geo Swan (talk) 22:37, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Press home

Geo Swan: According to the OED, to press home means "to present (an argument) forcefully; to emphasize (a fact or opinion)." That is not the sense in "press the attack." Your revert was incorrect. JBH23 (talk) 17:29, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

• JBH23, thanks for the effort you made to provide a link to substantiate your OED assertion.
• The dictionary of Allusions uses the phrase on page 381:

pour encourager les autres: To make an example of someone as a warning or incentive to others. The reference is to the British admiral John Byng, who was executed by firing squad in 1757 after his admittedly fairly modest naval force failed to press home an attack on the French-held island of Minorca during the Seven Years' War (1750-57).

• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: V. 6: R Through S, Appendices, Submarine Chasers, Eagle-Class Patrol Craft, page 207:

Numerous targets were sighted; but, due to frequent squalls and her own limitations, she was unable to press home an attack.

So far as I am concerned, this is an appropriate phrase - one used in dictionaries. Geo Swan (talk) 22:32, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

• Just because other people misuse a phrase, doesn't make it a good choice. The OED doesn't have free access, but see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/press%20home JBH23 (talk) 22:55, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
  • Okay, because other dictionaries use the phrase doesn't count because you, personally think they are incorrect?
  • Sorry, I discount your Merriam-Webster page, as I strongly suspect they have just given the top definition. It makes me discount your OED claim. Please be more careful. Geo Swan (talk) 01:40, 24 July 2019 (UTC)