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

Can't you see, unless you're as blind as a bat, that Lilias Russell is one of those polite sort of people who always must say pleasant things just for the sake of making themselves agreeable?

From The Children of Wilton Chase by Meade, L. T.