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Turn a blind eye
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See blind eye.
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Turn and turn about, английский
To stand alternate spells of duty. see watch-and-watch.
Turkish straits, английский
A term referring to two narrow waterways that connect the aegean arm of the mediterranean with the black sea, via the sea of marmara. at the western end of that sea, the dardanelles (known in antiquity as the hellespont) lie between the gallipoli peninsula and asia minor. at the eastern end, the bosphorus, which is straddled by the city of istanbul, is a former river valley, drowned by the sea at the end of the tertiary period. the turkish straits are an international waterway, governed by the montreux convention. they are conventionally considered the boundary between europe and asia. turk’s head: a turban-like ornamental knot braided from small line.
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