What does ‘play a blinder’ mean? Is it a popular phrase? I came across the phrase ‘played a blinder’ in the following paragraph of the New York Times’ December 12 article, titled “British Euro Farce,” dealing with British Prime Minister David Cameron’s v
To have your blinkers on - English Language Usage Stack Exchange On the eve of England India World Cup cricket match on 30 6 2019, Jos Buttler said "The mood in the camp is still very good Naturally there is some external pressure and it would be naive to say
etymology - Whats the origin of rob someone blind? - English . . . 0 You could compare this with the BrE expression playing [or pulling] a blinder This is a UK sports idiom for a brilliant performance, and used metaphorically in other areas (stackexchange) ie, the performance or trick is so stunningly brilliant that it 'blinds' the opponents and comprehensively defeats them There is also blind alley
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange It's a kind of mask that is worn by horses so that they can't see sideways or backwards I think it's called a blinder (not sure though) but is there a proper term for this accessory in English?
colloquialisms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Blind spot, at least when it means the part of the eye without photo-receptors, seems to have exactly the same name (or with the words reversed) calqued in a large number of different languages: point aveugle in French, Blinder Fleck in German, অন্ধবিন্দু in Bengali, bintik buta in Malay, 盲点 in Japanese, and many more