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blind leading the blind

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the 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.
See also: blind, leading


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Franklin, keeping the ball up on his side, said he had often heard of the blind leading the blind, and now, for the first time, he knew what it meant.
 
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