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buy a pig in a poke

  1. To buy something sight unseen (a 鈥減oke鈥 is a bag): 鈥淭he mail-order offer sounded like a bargain, but I didn't want to buy a pig in a poke.鈥


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鈥淒r. Van Helsing, I don鈥檛 quite like to 鈥榖uy a pig in a poke,鈥 as they say in Scotland, and if it be anything in which my honour as a gentleman or my faith as a Christian is concerned, I cannot make such a promise.

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Charles Michel, president of the European Council, tweeted after the Johnson meeting, 鈥淩eady to put a tiger in the tank but not to buy a pig in a poke. Level playing field is essential.鈥

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鈥淛ust tell me the truth. And if you don鈥檛 know, don鈥檛 ask me to buy a pig in a poke.鈥

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. seemed inclined to try to give lower courts more guidance, saying he was disinclined 鈥渢o buy a pig in a poke.鈥

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鈥淢other says that: Never buy a pig in a poke. I guess a poke is a sack.鈥

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