To avert your eyes is to look away deliberately. Avert your eyes from it, politely avert your eyes.
It is done out of tact as often as out of squeamishness. The word avert means to turn away, so to avert your eyes is to turn them from what is in front of them.
1phraseavert your eyesTo look away deliberately.
“Avert your eyes if you would rather not see the needle.”
avert your eyes is a phrase.
Practised in Ways of Looking