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blind leading the blindSituation where an unqualified person is attempting to train others in a task.Rate it:

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Blind Leading the BlindUninformed people, who try to lead or inform others, or it is about someone, who is not well equipped but wants to educate othersRate it:

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a blind squirrel finds a nutEveryone gets luckyRate it:

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are you blindUsed other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see are,‎ you,‎ blind.Rate it:

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blind with scienceTo overwhelm someone with details in order to influence or mislead them.Rate it:

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there are none so blind as those who will not seeUnderstanding cannot be forced on someone who chooses to be ignorant.Rate it:

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blind as a batNearly totally blind, having a very poor sense of vision.Rate it:

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even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a whileBeing right once doesn't prove anythingRate it:

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turn a blind eyeTo ignore or deliberately overlook, especially with respect to something unpleasant or improper.Rate it:

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are you blindA rhetorical question to an individual who has failed to see or notice something.Rate it:

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the doc says im going blind but i could never see anywayLess hurtRate it:

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I am blindAlternative form of I'm blindRate it:

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nod's as good as a wink to a blind batThe idea/proposed action is inconsequential to the current situation.Rate it:

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blindAny device intended to conceal or hide; as, a duck blind.Rate it:

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blindAn 1800s baseball term meaning no score.Rate it:

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blindA player who is or was forced to make a bet.Rate it:

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blindA forced bet.Rate it:

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blindA covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.Rate it:

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blind alleyA course of inquiry that leads nowhere.Rate it:

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blind alleyUsed other than as an idiom: see blind, alley. A street or passageway that leads nowhere.Rate it:

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Blind as a BatNot able to see at all or get completely blindRate it:

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blind dateA romantic meeting between two people who have never met before.Rate it:

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blind side someoneTo injure, reveal shared private information or cause financial or personal loss through disloyalty or actions which hurt or disappoint.Rate it:

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I see, said the blind manSaid to express confusion. Also used to express understanding after an initial period of confusion, i.e., "I see, said the blind man."Rate it:

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I'm blindIndicates that the speaker is blind.Rate it:

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in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kingAmong others with a disadvantage or disability, the one with the mildest disadvantage or disability is regarded as the greatest.Even someone without much talent or ability is considered special by those with no talent or ability at all.Rate it:

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love is blindA person who is in love can see no faults or imperfections in the person who is loved.Rate it:

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there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnaceEven if a person is in his or her senior years, with gray hair, he or she can still have ambition and energy, especially sexual energy.Rate it:

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la foi du charbonnierBlind faith.Rate it:

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throw dirt enough, and some will stickIf enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say Rate it:

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dans le royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont roisAmong the blind, the one-eyed is king.Rate it:

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adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition.Rate it:

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oculis captum esse (vid. sect. IV. 6., note auribus, oculis...)to be blind.Rate it:

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aliquem cupiditate honorum inflammare (or aliquem ad cupiditatem honorum inflammare)to kindle ambition in some one's mind.Rate it:

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auf dem Holzweg seinto be up a blind alleyRate it:

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c'est comme un cataplasme sur une jambe de boisA nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.Rate it:

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drank the koolaidDid what the Blind majority did, like a lemming, walking off a cliff.Rate it:

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fermer les yeuxto turn a blind eyeRate it:

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gloria ducito be guided by ambition.Rate it:

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gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrareto be consumed by the fires of ambition.Rate it:

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il faut savoir viser suffisamment haut pour ne pas tomber trop basIl faut avoir de l’ambition sous peine de régresser.Rate it:

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knock some sense into his headDepression Expression: During the Depression, there was little empathy for the unemployed. Pundits identified the loafer, the hobo, the bum, the specified lazy-boy, the uninspired, those lacking ambition as needing a wakeup Call.Rate it:

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laudem, gloriam quaerereto be guided by ambition.Rate it:

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laudis studio trahito be guided by ambition.Rate it:

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myope comme une taupeBlind as a bat.Rate it:

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ôte-toi de là que je m'y metteSe dit pour qualifier la conduite de gens qui veulent sans droit occuper la place d’un autre, qui n’ont pour mobile qu’une ambition impatiente.Rate it:

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stimulis gloriae concitarito be spurred on by ambition.Rate it:

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tout soldat porte dans sa giberne le bâton de maréchalOn ne devrait pas avoir trop peu d'ambition.Rate it:

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