to turn a blind eye
Vi um homem escondendo uma cerveja dentro do casaco... tive que fazer vista grossa.
I saw a man hiding a beer inside his coat... I had to turn a blind eye.
Etymologists trace it to the idea of willingly 'making the eye thick' — pretending not to see clearly. 'Vista grossa' appears in 18th-century Portuguese texts with roughly the modern sense.
Source: Phrases.org.uk — turn a blind eye.
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