blind adv.1
utterly, completely.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Barton Co. Democrat 12 Apr. 6/4: You come home blind, blazing, staggering drunk, and smash everything. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Gentlemen-Rankers’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 203: Yea, a trooper of the forces who has run his own six horses, / And faith he went the pace and went it blind. | |
| Tales of the Ex-Tanks 178: That didn’t prove that he wasn’t plump, blind, staggering crazy. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Nov. 14/2: Let ‘E.J.M.’ send his cobber [...] out to Western Queensland, and if I can’t mobilise at least 50 wool-hawks to shear him blind I will forfeit my tame grandmother. | |
| Aus. Felix (1971) 2: They had to be dragged, some blind drunk, the rest blind stupid from their booze. | |
| We Who Are About to Die 196: If you do give [a sucker] an even break, he’ll steal you blind. | |
| Man with the Golden Arm 115: The day I get my musician’s union card is the day I’ll steal Schwiefka blind. | |
| Savage Night (1991) 122: They [...] had said that I’d stolen his mother and father blind. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 112: She yelled to Jack to comeon and she’d fuckim blind. | |
| Friends of Eddie Coyle 29: Goddam car was eating me blind. | |
| (con. 1940s–60s) ‘The Bastard from the Bush’ in Snatches and Lays 82: Fuck me blind, he wants to join us. | |
| Dead Butler Caper 121: I happen to be fractionally more blind terrified of your father than I am of the unknown murderer. | |
| Nam (1982) 148: They would steal you blind, but they always had a big ball of opium for you to smoke. | |
| Permanent Midnight 89: Blind high when he X’s on the dotted line. | |
| Birthday 12: And you fucked her blind on the sofa. | |
| You Got Nothing Coming 200: All the employees were stealing them blind. |
In compounds
extremely drunk.
| Pettyfogger Dramatized II iv: I’m always so blind drunk overnight. | |
| Vermont Republican (Windsor, VT) 21 Feb. 4/3: ‘’Fore Gad you’re right [...] I was blind drunk’. | |
| ‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ in Flash Chaunter 5: Her mother she’s a lushington, / And stone blind drunk all day man. | |
| Comic Almanack Dec. 248: ’Tis said, you’ll scandalize your nation, / And get blind drunk a-going home! | |
| Sybil Bk IV 132: Hang me if I wasn’t blind drunk at the end of it. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | ‘Fair of Clogeen’ in Irish Songster 24: We danced like devils till morning, then went to bed blind drunk with whisky. | |
| ‘Sunday Trading Bill’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 115: To the gin shop you can cut away / And get blind drunk upon that day. | |
| Trail of the Serpent 249: You would think he had never been blind drunk in his life. | |
| ‘And She Wore A Waterfall’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 28: She got blind drunk on lager-beer. | |
| Big Bonanza (1947) 279: They fiddled and danced till they all got blind drunk. | |
| (con. c.1840) Huckleberry Finn 51: I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour. | |
| Journal of Solomon Sidesplitter 159: The patient who was ‘blind (drunk),’ was deprived of his whiskey. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Nov. 13/4: The constable swore without a smile that William was blind drunk. | |
| ‘In Ambush’ Complete Stalky & Co. 47: Stalky & Co. had... fallen by drink... They had returned blind-drunk from a hut. | |
| Fact’ry ’Ands 119: We’ll all get blin’ drunk when Johnnie comes marchin’ ’ome again. | |
| Aus. Felix (1971) 2: They had to be dragged, some blind drunk, the rest blind stupid from their booze. | |
| Redheap (1965) 51: ‘T’other’s a man,’ sez I, lyin’ along here like a blinded cripple’ ‘Blind drunk, you mean,’ said the youth on the bed. |
In phrases
1. (US) to commit oneself unrestrainedly.
| Broadway Belle (NY) 12 Mar. n.p.: And truer still, I ‘went it blind’ / With that ’are other lady. | |
| Mott Street Poker Club 20: ‘Blettee on laces [...] me glo it blind’. |
2. to drink heavily; usu. of alcohol.
| ‘’Arry in ’Arrygate’ in Punch 24 Sept. 133/3: Watching the poor sulphur-swiggers, a-gargling and going it blind. | |
| DSUE (8th edn) 475/2: [...] late C19–20. |
to rob without restraint.
| Mitchell Dly Republican (SD) 19 Sept. 1/2: The unsophisticated visitors are being robbed blind. | |
 | Times (Phila., PA) 22 June 10/6: The hackmen steal and rob you blind, that is, if the bazaar people and side-shows leave enough for the Jehus. | |
| Buffalo Morn. Exp. (NY) 2 Feb. 17/7: [headline] Says the Comptroller could not ‘steal the City blind’. Theft is not so easy. | |
| ‘A Ticket Outside’ in Goodstone Pulps (1970) 78/1: You’ve been robbing Joe blind from the start. | |
| Benny Muscles In (2004) 187: A run-down, no-good territory where Paddy used to rob you blind. | |
| Dly Press (Newport News, PA) 28 Aug. 28/3: Never trust a car dealer. He’ll steal you blind. | |
| Property Of (1978) 57: That damn Gina [...] is robbing me not quite blind. | |
| In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 189: I don’t want some gonifs coming in here robbing me blind while I show you my merchandise. | |
| Rutland Dly Herald (VT) 27 July 41/4: We’re much more likely to speak of being ‘robbed blind’ by a con artist than by a gun-toting criminal. | |
| Guardian G2 6 Aug. 8: They’re robbing you blind. | |
| Hooky Gear 308: Keep them fetchin. Time their carryin. Rob them blind. | |
| Donnybrook [ebook] ‘He wanted to rob you blind, he could’ve made off like a goat in miles of clover’. | |
| Shore Leave 22: Tremain was being robbed blind. |
to deceive, to defraud.
| Londinismen (2nd edn). |
see rob blind
(Aus./N.Z.) to overwhelm someone with talk, to bore someone.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Nov. 11/4: She was feared she’d find – that he’d talk her blind. | |
| Dinkum Aussie Dict. 51: Talk you blind: The same pub bore who does [talk incessantly]. An ear basher. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 207: talk a glass eye to sleep Boring. |