blind as a bat

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blind as a bat (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Nearly totally blind; having a very poor sense of vision.
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 23:
      "D'you know what? I'm blind. Thash what I am - blind's a bat. Everybody's blind's a bat. 'Cept you. Why aren't you blind's a bat?" "I don't know," I told him.

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