blind mice
Nursery rhyme trio
Blind mice refers to mice that cannot see, but the phrase is almost always an allusion to the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice," in which the farmer's wife cuts off their tails with a carving knife.
The rhyme lends the phrase a darkly comic or absurd quality: We wandered around like three blind mice looking for the exit.
- threeSum of one twice
- nurseryRoom for infants
- nursery rhymeTraditional poem for young children
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- tailRear animal appendage
farmer · wife · ran after · carving · carving knife · knife · cut off · running · sightless · rodents · whiskers · scurrying · chase · cut · see · squeaking · furry · Mother
- threestrio, triad, triple, triplet, trinity
- Micehouse mouse, field mouse, deer mouse, wood mouse, harvest mouse