词汇 | in the land country of the blind the one-eyed man is king |
词源 | in the land (country) of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. A proverbial phrase from the early 16th century. I know of no one-eyed king in history, but one U.S. president—Theodore Roosevelt (1859–1919)—was blind in one eye. |
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