blind man's buff
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of blind man's buff
C16: buff, perhaps from Old French buffe a blow; see buffet ²
Example Sentences
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American diplomacy has been playing at blind man's buff in Southeast Asia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bumping into him in a game of blind man's buff, she considers it a happy portent and they elope to Vienna.
From Time Magazine Archive
She could hawk with a merlin, or play blind man’s buff, or pince-merille.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
And then slackening his step, he talked or made Faith talk—and laugh—every inch of the way into the room where all the rest were clustered ready for blind man's buff.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner
It was like playing blind man's buff with everyone blind-folded except one.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
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