🐷 Pig
"Buy a pig in a poke"
Meaning
To buy something without checking it first.
About the pig
Pigs are associated with mess and excess in folklore, which is where idioms about greed and untidiness come from.
Example sentence
He bought the closed box at the market and got a pig in a poke.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
To buy something without checking it first.
More pig idioms
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"Pig-headed"
Very stubborn and unwilling to change your mind.
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"Guinea pig"
A person used to test something new.
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"When pigs fly"
Used to say something will never happen.
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"Cast pearls before swine"
To offer something valuable to people who do not appreciate it.
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"Go whole hog"
To do something completely, not halfway.
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"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"
You cannot make something excellent from very poor material.