blind man
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2.8
- noun
- /blaɪnd mæn/
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persona vendada
- "Poor, delicate darling—she's about as useful as a book to a blind man!"
Examples
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So you were impersonating a blind man as part of a seeing eye dog training exercise?
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The blind man, obviously sighted, moves the cup to catch the coin.
Fiction book (1997) -
Fight like a blind man!
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The difference between woo and science is something like the story of the blind men and the elephant.
Blog text (32) -
So you impersonated a blind man just to get a free hotel room?
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Blind Man (O.S.)
Fiction book (1998) -
Friends. # BLIND MAN #
Fiction book (1998) -
Woo promoters are like the blind men of the story; they touch some small part of the elephant and assume they now know all there is to know about it. While they may even get a tiny bit of truth, they have learned nothing useful or true on a fundamental level.
Blog text (32) -
During the game, the children took turns being the blind man, trying to catch their friends who were running away.
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In the park, I saw a blind man walking carefully with a cane, relying on his other senses.
Synonyms
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1.5
A person who cannot see or can see very little
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3.5
A person who has little or no sight
How Sighted
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3.5
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2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a man who cannot see or whose eyes are covered' is directly derivable from combining the adjective 'blind' (without visual perception) with the noun 'man' (adult male). This simple modifier-noun composition follows a common cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Blind man in games comes from the image of a person with their eyes covered. Picture a child with a scarf over their eyes trying to catch others by sound or touch, and that shows why it means 'a person who cannot see, especially during a game or experiment'.