🐾 Ostrich

"Stick your head in the sand"

Meaning

To ignore a problem and hope it goes away.

About the ostrich

Ostriches are large flightless birds long associated with avoiding danger by refusing to look at it, which is the idiom about denial.

Example sentence

Don't stick your head in the sand; the bill still needs to be paid.

Test yourself

Which idiom means...

To ignore a problem and hope it goes away.