| 词汇 | blind leading the blind |
| 释义 | Idiom blind leading the blind Theme: EXPLANATION - INEFFECTIVE having to do with a situation where people who don't know how to do something try to explain it to other people.Tom doesn't know anything about cars, but he's trying to teach Sally how to change the oil. It's a case of the blind leading the blind.When I tried to show Mary how to use a computer, it was the blind leading the blind. Idiom blind leading the blind a situation where someone is trying to show someone else how to do something which they do not know how to do themselves.I tried to explain how the software works, but it was a case of the blind leading the blind, really. the blind leading the blindA situation in which incompetent or ignorant people are guided or taught by an equally incompetent or ignorant person. Don't ask me to tutor someone in algebra because it would be the blind leading the blind. That project stalled as soon as it became a case of the blind leading the blind—no one knew what they were doing! blind leading the blindThose lacking the skills or knowledge for something are being guided by equally inept individuals. For example, Bill's teaching his son carpentry; that's a case of the blind leading the blind. The expression is found in the New Testament as one of Jesus's teachings (Matthew 15:14; Luke 6:39). [c. 1600] blind leading the blind, theThose who try to teach or guide others, even though they know no more than their pupils. The phrase comes from the Bible, presented as one of Jesus’s teachings in the books of Matthew (15:14) and Luke (6:39). It is quoted by numerous writers thereafter and is a proverb in John Heywood’s collection in 1546: “Where the blynd leadth the blynd, both fall in the dike.” |
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