On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:58:38 -0500, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> wrote:

>
>"DJS0302" > wrote in message
...
>> Does anyone know the expression that means to describe something that
>looks
>> valuable at first glance but turns out to be worthless? I want to say "A
>pig
>> in a poke" but I'm not sure if that's it.
>
>
>Buying a Pig in a Poke is buying sight unseen and usually being taken in the
>process. In the South, a poke is a sack. Buying a pig in a sack, unable
>to see the final product, is not suggested. Therefore, if you just take
>someone's word for something without checking into it yourself, you are
>buying a pig in a poke.

Got that right. Was a time when unscrupulous types would put a cat in
said poke, call it a pig, and cheat some poor rube.

Then there were the times somebody let the cat out of the bag...


modom

"Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes."
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