blind as a bat

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker

Samuel Johnson, one recalls, a ferociously unsociable reader, and blind as a bat, was constantly in danger of singeing his wig against his candle.

From New York Times

You’ve probably come across the phrase “blind as a bat” at some point in your life.

From The Verge

“The ruthlessness, I think, comes in grabbing onto myself, in saying: This is me, and I will not go where I can’t bear to go—to Amgash, Illinois—and I will not stay in a marriage when I don’t want to, and I will grab myself and hurl onward through life, blind as a bat, but on I go! This is the ruthlessness, I think.”

From The New Yorker

“Home office staff are either blind as a bat or have a hidden agenda . . . these are MEN!” a Daily Mail Web commenter wrote, garnering more than three thousand likes.

From The New Yorker