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What is the origin of the idiom as blind as a bat?

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∙ 13y ago
Updated: 9/21/2023

When people saw bats fly into walls and/or narrowly miss them. People figured bats were blind and they were right. So whenever someone bumped into a wall, they said they were as blind as bats.

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