🦇 Bat

"Blind as a bat"

Meaning

Unable to see well.

About the bat

Bats are active at night and were long thought to have poor daytime vision, which shows up in idioms about eccentric behavior or being unable to see clearly.

Example sentence

Grandpa is blind as a bat until he finds his spectacles.

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Which idiom means...

Unable to see well.

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