10 Examples of Similes
6. As Blind as a Bat
Bats are not actually blind at all. As a matter of fact, they tend to have very good night time vision, which makes a lot of sense because they do most of their hunting in the dark. They also have very good hearing, and an echo location system that makes them even more effective at finding their prey.
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The echolocation misleads a lot of people into believing that bats don’t use their eyes and, by extension, are blind. As explained, this is just not true, but that doesn’t stop people from using the expression to describe somebody (maybe themselves) that has poor vision.
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