Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “the blind leading the blind“ and it’s meaning is “(figuratively) used to describe a situation where a person, who lacks necessary knowledge about something (a subject), is advising or helping another unknowledgeable person on it”
Example Sentence: Nobel prize-winning economist, Abhijit Banerjee, noted that even if one does not have clear information about the quality of a product, observing other people purchasing it can often propel people to ignore their own information and follow others, leading to a case of the blind leading the blind.
This word is present in The Guardian article History tells how people act in pandemics – selfishly, but also with surprising altruism and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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