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buy a pig in a poke

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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.
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You don''t have to buy a pig in a poke at The Chocolate Caper.
That's a situation - if it is true - which will be soon solved when the military reads his letter and realizes they have been trying to buy a pig in a poke.
Sometimes referred to as permission selling, it weakly gives control to the listener while asking him to buy a pig in a poke.
 
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