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• (buy) a pig in a poke — (buy) a pig in a ˈpoke idiom if you buy a pig in a poke, you buy sth without seeing it or knowing if it is good enough • Buying from a catalogue can mean buying a pig in a poke. Main entry: ↑pigidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• buy a pig in a poke — buy something without seeing it or knowing if it will be satisfactory You shouldn t buy that car without first inspecting it. It is like buying a pig in a poke …   Idioms and examples

• buy a pig in a poke — buy something without been seen in advance …   English contemporary dictionary

• Pig in a poke — is an idiom that refers to a confidence trick originating in the Late Middle Ages, when meat was scarce but apparently rats and cats were not.The scheme entailed the sale of a suckling pig in a poke (bag). The wriggling bag actually contained a… …   Wikipedia

• pig in a poke — something offered in such a way that the one to whom it is offered does not know exactly what the thing is nor what its real value is was too shrewd ever to buy a pig in a poke * * * something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as …   Useful english dictionary

• pig in a poke — Date: 1562 something offered in such a way as to obscure its real nature or worth < unwilling to buy a pig in a poke > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• pig in a poke — If someone buys a pig in a poke, they buy something without checking the condition it was in, usually finding out later that it was defective …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• pig in a poke —    If someone buys a pig in a poke, they buy something without checking the condition it was in, usually finding out later that it was defective.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• Pig in a poke —   If someone buys a pig in a poke, they buy something without checking the condition it was in, usually finding out later that it was defective …   Dictionary of English idioms

• a pig in a poke — see under ↑poke2 • • • Main Entry: ↑pig a pig in a poke A thing bought unseen, or a commitment made to something unknown or unknowable • • • Main Entry: ↑poke * * * I something that is bought or accepted without knowing its value or seeing it… …   Useful english dictionary

• pig — [pig] n. pl. pigs or pig [ME pigge, orig., young pig (replacing OE swin) < OE * picga, as in picgbread, mast, pig s food] 1. any swine, esp. the unweaned young of the thick bodied domesticated species (Sus scrofa): see HOG (sense 1) 2. meat… …   English World dictionary