How to translate 掩耳盗铃 into English? Preferably an idiom just as picturesque and succinct. Thanks.

Here's the original meaning:


  The expression 掩耳盗铃 comes from a story about a person who decided to
  steal a bell. However, the bell was too heavy to carry and the thief
  decided to break it into pieces. He was afraid the sound would attract
  attention, so the thief blocked his ears and continued to smash the
  bell believing that as long as he could not hear the bell's sound no
  one else could either.
Oxford, CC-CEDICT, A Chinese-English dictionary all use the following idiom to define 掩耳盗铃:

(to) bury one's head in the sand

The Free Dictionary defines it as:

bury one's head in the sand and hide one's head in the sand; have one's head in the sand
Fig. to ignore or hide from obvious signs of danger. (Alludes to an ostrich, which is believed incorrectly to hide its head in a hole in the ground when it sees danger.) Stop burying your head in the sand. Look at the statistics on smoking and cancer.

Like-wise Oxford Pocket also has:

(to) bury one's head in the sand like an ostrich

It's not a perfect match, per se, but it's a pretty close English idiom.