(n.) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) We found recently that the mutation Arg189----His decreases the affinity of HCII for dermatan sulfate but not for heparin (Blinder, M. A., Andersson, T. R., Abildgaard, U., and Tollefsen, D. M. (1989) J. Biol.
(2) Despite the promise of a layered saga involving communism, the IRA and betting syndicates, not a great deal happens in Peaky Blinders .
(3) It's true that Putin – or rather his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov – played a blinder in September by seizing the initiative on Syria and turning the threat of a US attack on Damascus into a UN agreement on chemical weapons.
(4) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
(5) Still and all – the Visit Scotland archive played a blinder this week.
(6) The Institute for Fiscal Studies played a blinder, as usual, pointing out the Treasury's sleights of hand and misrepresentations.
(7) Historical gangster epic Peaky Blinders was a double winner at the Bafta TV Craft Awards ceremony on Sunday night, where the BBC also took home awards for its Doctor Who specials commemorating the show's 50th anniversary and the special award for Strictly Come Dancing.
(8) With Fitch due to rule on Britain's AAA after the budget, Osborne needs to play a blinder.
(9) The rules of engagement, of course, specified an embargo on political questions, but co-host Adrian Chiles played an absolute blinder, never missing a chance to draw Tony (if Phil from Ipswich can call him Tony, I don't see why I shouldn't) into a discussion on a subject about which he actually knows something.
(10) In addition to Peaky Blinders' 1920s gangland epic, the BBC also has Quirke, an Andrew Davies adaptation of the John Banville novels.
(11) I learned early on not to listen to either critique – the people who love you or the people who don't like you … The best thing to do is just put on the blinders, write the book that you would want to read and hope that other people share your taste.
(12) The BBC pulled off a bit of a blinder with the iPlayer this year .
(13) The players were more interested in keeping up to date with Peaky Blinders, Keane reckoned, but with reports of Hull City being interested in O’Neill, they really should be.
(14) "Hi Lawrence, if you thought La Liga's fixture generator played a blinder with this final match of the season, how would you describe the conjuring up of the last round of matches in Argentina's top division last year?
(15) The casting here is absolutely key, and Disney needs to pull off a blinder akin to Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk , or Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy .
(16) Using the latest available figures – for the year to the end of June 2013 – Dr Scott Blinder, a specialist at Oxford University's Migration Observatory , calculates the difference between the number who arrived here to study and those departing who say that they originally came here to study at some 99,000.
(17) Peaky Blinders Sam Neil either shoots Grace or himself.
(18) Peaky Blinders Its producers will be wary of any "British Boardwalk Empire" comparisons, since calling The Hour the "British Mad Men" weighted expectations unflatteringly.
(19) Peaky Blinders Steven Knight is a writer with an unusual knack for coming up with quirky ideas that go improbably big: he created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
(20) Tesco played a blinder and reached an accommodation with Unilever over the dispute, which was depressingly but predictably called Marmitegate.
Winkers
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If I can't indicate that my praise of a colleague's new shirt is sarcastic, not literal, without a gurning yellow winker, its presence stands more as indicative of my linguistic incompetence than his sartorial faux pas.