The classic selling strategy for a pig in a poke!
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"They simply will not buy a pig in a poke," LeRoy said.
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One swallow doesn't wallow in mud till a pig in a poke takes flight.
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"We don't want to buy a pig in a poke," one of the sources said.
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So here's my question: Do you think Verizon bought themselves a pig in a poke?
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S.S. Callister"), Rolling Road ("Fifteen Million Credits"), Pig in a Poke ("The National Anthem"), Valdack's Revenge ("U.
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For example, at 20A, the answer to the clue "Purchase something sight unseen" is BUY A PIG IN A POKE.
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"You're asking him to buy a pig in a poke," Cogan said, using a colloquialism for purchasing or accepting something without knowing exactly what it is.
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" In a statement Thursday, Ohio AG Dave Yost, who helped spearhead opposition to the negotiating class, said, "This process is fundamentally flawed because it binds people to buy a pig in a poke.
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Chief Justice John Roberts worried that the court was being asked to "buy a pig in a poke"—apply a constitutional right in a new direction without having much of a handle on what it means.
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Pig in a poke originated in the late Middle Ages. The con entails a sale of what is claimed to be a small pig, in a poke (bag). The bag actually contains a cat (not particularly prized as a source of meat). If one buys the bag without looking inside it, the person has bought something of less value than was assumed, and has learned first-hand the lesson caveat emptor.
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In National Lampoon's European Vacation, the Griswold family wins a vacation on a game show called Pig in a Poke when their opponents fail to correctly answer a question about the pyramidal tracts.
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"Pig In A Poke" is another posthumous album by the Pork Dukes recorded in 1979, but released three years after in 1982. This album is extremely rare; even rarer than "Pig Out Of Hell". None of the songs from this album are put into any compilations.
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He appeared in a 1964 episode of Perry Mason as Leo Mann, an angry investor, titled "The Case of the Latent Lover". In 1966 he made an appearance on Petticoat Junction as Sheriff Blake in the episode: "Jury at the Shady Rest". In 1966 he also appeared on "Green Acres" as Sheriff Blake in the episode: "Pig in a Poke".
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For Magic Bullet Productions, he appeared in five of the Kaldor City SF audio dramas, in the role of scheming politician Landerchild. He has also appeared in the second volume of The True History of Faction Paradox, The Ship of a Billion Years, as the Egyptian deity Anhur. He played Lord Straxus in the Bernice Summerfield Season 9 episode "The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel". He also appeared in Lovejoy in the episode "Pig in a Poke".
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Kermode started his career at theatre and received an early positive review in the Stage in 1979 when he played Mr Medley in The Man of Mode.The Stage, Thursday 3 May 1979Sunday Express, needs date In 1992, at the Oxford Playhouse he played an important role in Mark Dornford May's A Pig in a Poke. He played Algy twice in the Importance of Being Earnest. In parallel with his stage career, Kermode has a long career in television.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation was directed by Amy Heckerling and written by John Hughes and Robert Klane. After becoming the winning family on a game show called "Pig In A Poke", the Griswalds win a two-week trip to Europe. The vacation begins in London, where they visit sights such as Big Ben, Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. Having trouble with driving on the left side of the road, Clark ends up in many accidents and unknowingly knocks down Stonehenge.
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Katze im Sack (Pig in a poke) is a German drama film directed by Florian Schwarz and written by Michael Proehl. The film's tagline translates to English as A romantic film for those who don't like romantic films. Set primarily in Leipzig, two apparently lost souls find one another but struggle to find romance against circumstances and their own divisive personalities. The two lead characters, Karl played by Christoph Bach and Doris Jule Böwe, have a chance meeting on a train.
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"Buying a pig in a poke" has become a colloquial expression in many European languages, including English, for when someone buys something without examining it beforehand.Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898. In some regions the "pig" in the phrase is replaced by "cat", referring to the bag's actual content, but the saying is otherwise identical. This is also said to be where the phrase "letting the cat out of the bag" comes from, although there may be other explanations.
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The Griswald family competes in a game show called Pig in a Poke and wins an all-expenses-paid trip to Europe. In a whirlwind tour of western Europe, chaos of all sorts ensues. They stay in a fleabag London hotel with a sloppy, tattooed Cockney desk clerk. While in their English rental car, a yellow Austin Maxi, Clark's tendency to drive on the wrong side of the road causes frequent accidents, including knocking over a bicyclist, who reappears throughout the film.
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This difference between men's and women's pockets continues today with men's version of clothing of the same size and type having bigger pockets. The word appears in Middle English as pocket, and is taken from a Norman diminutive of Old French poke, pouque, modern poche, cf. pouch. The form "poke" is now only used in dialect, or in such proverbial sayings as "a pig in a poke". Historically, the term "pocket" referred to a pouch worn around the waist by women in the 17th to 19th centuries, mentioned in the rhyme Lucy Locket.
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209 Alison Chitty found the house in Enfield for Life is Sweet and fell in love with it because of its garden shed. She also found the old mobile snack-bar, which Rea's Patsy sells on to Broadbent's Andy as a pig in a poke, in Northampton, and painted it up.Michael Coveney, The World according to Mike Leigh p.216 Life is Sweet 's visual world is bright, jaunty, primary-coloured – Leigh's next film Naked was conceived in blacks and blues and a 'dark, dilapidated grunginess', the contrast with this, its predecessor, very marked.
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From there they stop in France, where their camcorder gets stolen; in West Germany, where they spend the night at the home of strangers they mistake for their relatives; and in Italy, where they become involved with robbery and kidnapping. This is the first of two Vacation films to not feature the Randy Quaid "Cousin Eddie" character. The second film is the 2015 Vacation. In the opening "Pig in a Poke" sequence as well as the closing credits, the family's name is spelled as "Griswald" as opposed to "Griswold".
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The green goods scam, also known as the "green goods game", was a scheme popular in the 19th-century United States in which people were duped into paying for worthless counterfeit money. It is a variation on the pig-in-a-poke scam using money instead of other goods like a pig. The mark, or victim, would respond to flyers circulated throughout the country by the scammers ("green goods men") which claimed to offer "genuine" counterfeit currency for sale. This currency was sometimes alleged to have been printed with stolen engraving plates.
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The green goods scam, also known as the "green goods game", was a fraud scheme popular in the 19th-century United States in which people were duped into paying for worthless counterfeit money. It is a variation on the pig-in-a-poke scam using money instead of other goods like a pig. In the typical green goods scam, the mark, or victim, would respond to flyers circulated throughout the country by the scammers ("green goods men") which claimed to offer "genuine" counterfeit currency for sale. This currency was sometimes alleged to have been printed with stolen engraving plates.
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A pig in a poke is a thing that is bought without first being inspected, and thus of unknown authenticity or quality.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edition, 2006 s.v. 'pig' P4 The idiom is attested in 1555: > I wyll neuer bye the pyg in the poke Thers many a foule pyg in a feyre > clokeJohn Heywood, Two hundred Epigrammes, vpon two hundred prouerbes, with > a thyrde hundred newely added, 1555, full text A "poke" is a bag, so the image is of a concealed item being sold. Starting in the 19th century, this idiom was explained as a confidence trick where a farmer would substitute a cat for a suckling pig when bringing it to market.
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Pigs have long been featured in proverbial expressions: a "pig's ear", a "pig in a poke", as well as the Biblical expressions "pearls before swine" and "ring of gold in a swine's snout". Indeed, whereas the phrase "lipstick on a pig" seems to have been coined in the 20th century, the concept of the phrase may not be particularly recent. The similar expression, "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear" seems to have been in use by the middle of the 16th century or earlier. Thomas Fuller, the British physician, noted the use of the phrase "A hog in armour is still but a hog" in 1732, here, as the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796) later noted "hog in armour" alludes to "an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed." The Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) recorded the variation "A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog" in his book of proverbs The Salt-Cellars (published 1887).
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