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blinkers

US // (ˈblɪŋkəz) //

眨眼器,眨眼,眨眼之间,眨眼间

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : mainly British leather sidepieces attached to a horse's bridle to prevent sideways visionUsual US and Canadian word: blinders
    • : a slang word for goggle

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The central theme of my book is that a group of people had ideological blinkers.

  • Overhead the yardarm blinkers were signaling, and directly over Sara Lee's head a great white searchlight swept the water ahead.

  • Immediately over Lord Wharncliffe's head was suspended a pair of horse's blinkers.

  • He wished that some accident could have hemmed in his eyes between inexorable blinkers, and sped him on in a channel ever so worn.

  • Do you know, my dear father refused a peerage because he felt it meant putting blinkers on his best newspaper.

  • A man intent on action is like a horse in blinkers, he goes straight forward, seeing only the road ahead.