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blind with science

verb

Definitions

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

    • 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.

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