Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
“It'll be all right,” I assured her. “Make a rule for yourself not to speak to anyone, and nobody's going to guess you can see. It was only being quite unprepared that landed you in that mess before. ‘In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king’.”
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954
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