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Idioms are phrases which carry meaning largely independent of its individual components. They're great.
So in this Cool History, Sabrina explains why we turn a blind eye, give the cold shoulder, and bite the bullet. Here's a hint, it has to do with the British General Horatio Nelson, Sir Walter Scott, and the American Civil War... or not.

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Blind Eye:
Nelson : the essential hero by Ernle Bradford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_a_blind_eye
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/turn-a-blind-eye.html

Cold Shoulder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_shoulder
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cold-shoulder.html

Bite the Bullet:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bite-the-bullet.html
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796)

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To you loyal under the folders, I grant thee a joke.

When the cannibal showed up late to the luncheon, they gave him the cold shoulder.

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