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Idioms: sight unseen

Without having viewed the object in question, as in He bought the horse sight unseen. This seeming oxymoron--how can a sight, which means something seen, be not seen?--dates from the late 1800s.


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Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more