sight unseen
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- unsight unseen (dated)
Etymology[edit]
Reportedly first attested 1892
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sight unseen (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Not having seen the object beforehand.
- 1902, Myrtle Reed, chapter 5, in Lavender and Old Lace:
- When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.
- 2005 August 2, Michiko Kakutani, “They'll Take Manhattan, for a Million or More”, in The New York Times[1], retrieved 1 Sep. 2008:
- More than $300 million worth of condominiums were sold in the new Time Warner complex sight unseen while the building was still under construction.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sight unseen.
Translations[edit]
not seen beforehand