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Today's expression is to look away. It's a phrasal verb. To look away.

Don't look away. Hey, don't look away. Now, to look away simply means to look in a different direction, to be looking at one thing and then turn and look at something else. However, usually this expression means do not ignore me or pay attention to me look at me listen to me listen to me concentrate on what

I'm saying don't look away are you looking away so almost always we say don't look away

are you looking away when I'm talking to you don't look away

this is the idea okay all right well let's check out a dialogue don't look away from me

when I'm talking to you. Yes, Mom.

Did you take the cookies or not?

I was hungry.

Oh, boy, this reminds me when I was young.

Sometimes my mother would bake cookies.

Oh, and they were so good, so delicious. Oh, how I loved and love my mother's cookies.

And I would steal them. You know, usually my mom would give me maybe two cookies every day.

But if my mom made cookies, I would steal like five or six because they were so

delicious. And when my mom would catch me, I could not look in my mother's face. I could not

look into her eyes. I was so embarrassed. I felt so bad. I couldn't look at her. I had to look

away. And my mom would always say, don't look away from me. What about you? Maybe one of your

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