The new car you bought is a pig in a poke.

你买的那辆新车是瞎买的，没什么用。

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I want to see the tennis racket before I agree to the price. I don't want to buy a pig in a poke.

我想先看看网球拍然后才能接受这个价位，我可不想胡乱买东西。

youdao

My brother bought a pig in a poke. He bought some property in Florida over the phone. It was on the ocean - in fact at high tide it was six feet under water.

我兄弟做了次冤大头。他通过电话交易就买下了佛罗里达的一块土地。那是沿海的——事实上涨潮的时候那块地会淹在水面下六英尺。

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She is now wondering whether debt-crazed governments are peddling a pig in a poke, and using the growing panic about pensions to do so.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

Call it the pig-in-a-poke stratagem.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: New START, old stratagem

And John Holum, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said the Senate should put off any discussion of the treaty's costs until after ratification--a classic sales pitch for a pig in a poke.

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