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Blind side   /blaɪnd saɪd/   Listen
Blind side

noun
1.
The side on which your vision is limited or obstructed.






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"Blind side" Quotes from Famous Books



... and likewise, that a man is the reverse of agreeable, if you see that he is trying, by managing and humoring you, to make himself agreeable to you,—I mean, if you can see that he is smoothing you down, and agreeing with you, and trying to get you on your blind side, as if he thought you a baby or a lunatic. And there is all the difference in the world between the frank, hearty wish in man or woman to be agreeable, and this diplomatic and indirect way. No man likes to think that he ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various

... may be, he tenders exactly the half, the matter being usually settled by what is technically known as "splitting the difference." Delighted with his purchase, he carries it home, and persuades his friends he has got to the blind side of the dealer, and is in possession of the real thing for the fiftieth part of what others give for it. He proceeds to enlighten his friends on the subject, telling them to follow his example, which ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart



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