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 • 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

“If you cannot see the difference between that frumpish gown of yours, with its little bobtails and fringes, and those pretty dresses before us, I must say you are as blind as a bat, Mattie.”

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette