| 单词 | blind as a bat or brickbat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblind as a bat or †brickbat a. Destitute of the sense of sight, whether by natural defect or by deprivation. In comparisons, as blind as a bat or †brickbat; also blind as a beetle, blind mole, blind stone (see the nouns); to turn a blind eye: see eye n.1 Phrases 2t. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind star-blindeOE bissonc950 blind-bornc975 blindc1000 darkOE purblinda1325 sightlessa1325 start blinda1387 stark blinda1425 stone-blindc1480 beetle-blind1556 beetle1566 eyeless?1570 purblinded1572 high-gravel-blind1600 not-seeing?1602 kind-blind1608 bat-blind1609 unseeing1609 blindful1621 winking-eyed1621 lamplessa1625 deocular1632 lightless1638 bat-eyed1656 stock-blind1675 duncha1692 gazelessa1819 visionlessa1821 blind-eyed1887 stone-eyed1890 unsighted1983 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) x. 46 Bartimeus sæt blind wið þone weg wædla. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1859 He wass æness wurrþenn blind. c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 105 O verrey light of eyen that ben blynde. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3632 As bleynde as a betulle. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hvv Blind men shold iudge no colours. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xvi. 5) Blynd folke runne gadding hither and thither like mad Bedlems. 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 40 As blinde, as moules, or bats. 1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xiv. 51 After the old prouerbe, Who so blinde, as hœ that will not see? 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 52 As blind as a bat at noone. ?1705 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Char. Priest-craft 27 Hittee missee, happy go lucky, as the blind Man kill'd the Crow. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 464. ¶5 Jupiter..left him to strole about the World in the Blind Condition wherein Chremylus beheld him. 1840 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 127 For blind as a bat he was. 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xlii. 438 The old Scholar..is as blind as a brickbat. 1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 737 Galileo, frail and blind. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xviii. §2 I was blind as a bat. Pushed into a job by my people. 1943 E. Caldwell Georgia Boy iii. 50 I've done gone and got as blind as a bat. I can't see nothing at all. < as lemmas |
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