Meaning of blind with science | Babel Free

Definitions

To overwhelm someone with details in order to influence or mislead them.

idiomatic

Examples

“He had no doubt⟳ that they would all have⟳ highly convincing stories, and would try⟳ to blind him with science if he attempted to pin them down.”

“If you give⟳ him the full printed accounts of his company, he will react⟳ by saying that you are blinding him with science, and will pick⟳ on figures with many noughts after them and ask⟳ where all that money has gone.”

“My Hon. Friend the Member for the City of Chester has explained what could happen⟳ if he comes up against a really hot surveyor who blinds him with science and produces all sorts of cases of which the valuation officer has not heard.”

“He'd blinded him with science. He'd tied him up with references and precedents. He'd cited Rabbi This from Cracow and Rabbi That from Vilna, till apparently the Great Developer looked like⟳ nothing so much as a bull quilled with banotilleros.”

“Betting was how most of the money Bill earned from helping Fred ended up back in Fred's pocket and not in his. Fred blinded him with science and it always turned out to be to Fred's advantage, Bill thought ruefully.”

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