sight unseen

English

Alternative forms

unsight unseen (dated)

Etymology

Reportedly first attested 1892

Pronunciation

enPR: sīt′-ŭn-sēn
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

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, 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

not seen beforehand

Finnish: näkemätön
French: les yeux fermés (fr)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: usett

Nynorsk: usett
Polish: w ciemno (adverb), bez oglądania

See also

pig in a poke

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