In The Country Of The BLIND, The ONE EYED Man Is KING Idiom American Expressions and American Idioms - What does In The Country Of The BLIND, The ONE EYED Man Is KING Idiom mean?

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In the country of the BLIND, the ONE-EYED man is KING What does In the country of the BLIND, the ONE-EYED man is KING mean?	A man of even limited ability is at a great advantage in the company of those less able.	It doesn't matter if you don't completely understand how the Internet works! You know more than anyone else here. So, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. An English proverb cited by John Ray in 1678 tells us that "a man were better be half blind than have both eyes out." Not only would he be able to avoid the ditch (fallen into by the blind leading the blind), he might find himself in a position if leadership. "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" is quoted in Erasmus' "Adagia," in 1536. We also see it in John Palsgrave's translation of the "Comedy of Acolastus." In 1522, in his "Why Come Yet Not to Court?" John Skelton tells us that: "an one eyed man is Well sighted when is is amonge blynde men."
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In The Country Of The BLIND, The ONE EYED Man Is KING Idiom