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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. The
idiom is
attested in 1555: A...
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Pig in a poke is an
idiom that
refers to
a kind of
confidence trick.
A pig in a poke may also
refer to:
Pig in a Poke, an
Australian TV
series Pig in...
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Pig in a Poke is
a 1977
Australian series about a Melbourne doctor who
moves to Redfern.
There was
a 1974 one-off drama, and
a subsequent series of five...
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A Poke in the Eye... with
a Sharp Stick is
a 1988
album by
Raymond Watts under the
moniker PIG. It was
reissued in ****an
in 1998 by Blue Noise. An extremely...
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a "
pig in a poke", as well as the
Biblical expressions "pearls
before swine" and "ring of gold
in a swine's snout".
Whereas the
phrase "lipstick on
a...
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poke in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Poke may
refer to:
Poke (Ender's Game),
a fictional character Poke (game),
a two-player card game
Poke,
a fictional...
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a financial success. The
Griswold family competes in a game show
called Pig in a Poke and win an all-expense-paid trip to Europe, and
in a whirlwind...
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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...
- List of
individual pigs Monster Pig Dewan,
Shaila (2005-03-19). "DNA
tests to
reveal if
possible record-size boar is
a pig in a poke". San
Francisco Chronicle...
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working as
a model in the late 1960s, she went on to
appear in many
television series and
stage productions, plus
comedy and
horror films,
in the 1970s...
