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blind as a bat



ADJECTIVE
nearsighted
Synonyms


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“I was blind as a bat, but I always knew where the target was,” Cooper says.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 30, 2019

I don't understand this "trademark" thing – Larkin didn't wear spectacles for effect; he was as blind as a bat – and I think he would have found this irredeemably gruesome.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2010

She has to learn her roles letter-perfect, and for a good reason: "I'm as blind as a bat."

From Time Magazine Archive

The old Shaper, a man I cannot help but admire, goes out the back window with his harp at a single bound, though blind as a bat.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

“I’m as blind as a bat in this darkness!”

From Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman by Noel Sainsbury




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