blind as a bat

Example Sentences

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If Barrack was really a witness to Trump’s management style in that period, then he must have been either blind as a bat or a consummate liar.

From Los Angeles Times

“What we did is we used a lot of strobe lights. We wanted you to be blind as a bat when you came out of it. I wanted to screw up your vision. It was just a black tunnel, and we’d turn out all the lights and screw up your eyes. I wanted you to be all messed up.”

From Los Angeles Times

“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