'Bury Your Head in the Sand' to Avoid Difficulty — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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Today we talk about avoiding difficult subjects. One way you can do this is to bury your head in the sand.
Burying your head in the sand means that you are avoiding, or trying to avoid, a situation. You do this by pretending that it does not exist.
Some word experts say this expression comes from a common, but mistaken, belief about a large flightless bird. Some believe that ostriches bury…
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