Played a blinder
Rupert Murdoch has played a blinder.From the FTIt means 'made an absolutely brilliant play'. Is this a purely British idiom, and how far back does it go?
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The same query at phrases.ac.uk (posted Aug 2000) is ominously void of responses. FWIW, I reckon this combines older Brit colloquial 'blinding' (as minced oath) with the more literal 'dazzlingly...
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OED2 lists the sense of "something 'dazzlingly' good or difficult, esp. an excellent piece of play in Rugby Football or Cricket. colloq.". Cited back to 1950.
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Never heard "blinder" Stateside. "Blindingly good" or somesuch might slip by in context; "blinder" wouldn't - my reaction to the sentence up there was "must mean he blindsided someone".Reaction of...
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