blind man's buff
nounEtymology From blind man's + an obsolete sense of buff, coming from Old French buffe (“blow”). First known usage from 1854.
- That was a further clue; and here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," as children say at blind-man's-buff, although, as a matter-of-fact, she had now been talking of George Miller at all.1876, William Black, “An Encounter”, in Madcap Violet. […], volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 74:
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