blind as a bat

Abel wished that its feathers would turn to lead so it could fall on its head from the world’s tallest tree, that its beak would rot and become useless even for eating mush, that it should be blind as a bat and fly into a dragon’s flaming mouth, that it should sink in quicksand mixed with broken bottles, very slowly, to prolong its suffering, and much more of the same sort.

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.

“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.”

“They’re blind. That’s why they say ‘blind as a bat.’

“I was blind as a bat, but I always knew where the target was,” Cooper says.