close one's eyes vs look the other way

close one's eyes

verb
  • To ignore something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close, one's, eyes. 

  • To sleep. 

look the other way

verb
  • To ignore something wrong; to connive (at), to turn a blind eye. 

How often have the words close one's eyes and look the other way occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )