As most know, horse trainers use blinders to keep horses focused only on what’s ahead of them, and to keep them from distractions that may come from the side. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/columns/local_story_331171343.html/resources_printstory]
Noun : He played a blinder. From Dictionary.com.
To say the pictures from Norway were great and that he "played a blinder" is a bit steep I feel. From Wordnik.com. [Conventional Wisdom Index: Week 5] Reference
I don't know what kind of blinder these are but I have no intention of taking them off. From Wordnik.com. [Steny Hoyer Answers Your Questions] Reference
Yep, the DH rule is my "blinder" issue, and nothing you say will ever change my thinking. From Wordnik.com. [ToughSledding] Reference
No one blinder that s/he who doesn't want to look. From Wordnik.com. [Full Text Of Obama's Big Race Speech: A Big Break With Political Precedent] Reference
Howard Jacobson is really playing a blinder in this. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Cameron on the front foot, plays a blinder in Norway. From Wordnik.com. [Conventional Wisdom Index: Week 5] Reference
The nearer you approach me, the blinder I strike back. From Wordnik.com. [Just Listen: Hell Is a Suicidal Teenager] Reference
On the other hand, David Cameron has played a blinder. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Our insistence that we are rational is another blinder. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Tarico: Sixteen Wives, Twenty Children: The Role of Machismo in Overpopulation] Reference
She looked straight out of Imperial Rome, a real blinder. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Plutus his sight and had made Neoclides blinder than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
‘I grow blinder, too,’ said the old man, shaking his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
He is blind that eats his marrow, but far blinder that lets him. From Wordnik.com. [Collection of Scotch Proverbs] Reference
Using his hand as a blinder, he pressed his face against the glass. From Wordnik.com. [Tanner Ties]
You could have got a fortune for that blinder, if it had no flaws. '. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
"Wildfire, I got a rope on you -- an 'a hackamore -- an' a blinder," said. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
"Slip off the blinder," he said to his friends, and Algy it was who obeyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
‘Why, you get blinder every day, Bedwin,’ said Mr. Brownlow, rather testily. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
Garry was laughing at Maura's plan and even Kenny had to admit it was a blinder. From Wordnik.com. [Maura's Game]
We really didn't need to trade one administration with idealogical blinder for another. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: My National Security Team Is Uniquely Suited To Help America Lead By "Moral Example"] Reference
Logic is obsessed with it's own logic and that creates a blinder in election campaigns. From Wordnik.com. [Polls Show Close Presidential Race In The Swing States] Reference
My blinder was removed, and I found myself in a pleasant room some fifteen feet square. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Yes, that was a wake-up call but ever since then he's just been superb and played a blinder. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
I must be even blinder than I thought, if there are enough signs for you to go that far already. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
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