Blinkered
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(of a horse) wearing blinkers.
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[Narrow-minded], [limited] [perspective].
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You guys calling the original guy an idiot are all wrong. Im a huge [horse racing] fan, and racehorses wear [blinkers]. A carriage-pulling horse, or a jumper, wears [blinders], but the hoods that some racehorses wear are indeed blinkers, which is where the term comes from.
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Horses wear [blinkers]. It stops them getting startled by movement in the [peripheral] vision. So to be described as [blinkered] means you are not open to other ideas, Single minded. [Blinkered]!
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A blinkered person is unable or unwilling to understand other peoples beliefs, and blinkered opinions or ways of behaving show someone is unable or unwilling to understand other people:
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