Bury Your Head in the Sand (Idioms)

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The beach is such a fun place. You can swim in the ocean and dig in the sand. You can even bury things in the sand. But I wouldn’t recommend doing this:

Bury Your Head in the Sand

Speaker A: Jonathan, what are you doing about the plankton problem?
Speaker B: Plankton problem? I don’t know about any plankton problem.
Speaker A: I feel like the whole is burying its head in the sand about the plankton problem.
Speaker A: I’m not avoiding the plankton problem. I know nothing about the plankton problem!

To “bury your head in the sand” means to hide from a problem or unpleasant reality. But at some point, you will have to face whatever situation you are avoiding.

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