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
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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
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He would find ten thousand things of tremendous interest all around him, to which he had up to now been as blind as a bat.
From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Carter, Herbert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.