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Phrase(s): buy a pig in a poke Fig. to buy something without looking inside first. • If you don’t get a good look at the engine of a used car before you buy it, you’ll wind up buying a pig in a poke. • I just took the salesman’s word that this camera worked. I guess I bought a pig in a poke.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs