Sentences with phrase «pig in a poke»

The absence of any consultation with anyone in the area of Greater Manchester is the more remarkable because the current health and care deal is a gigantic pig in a poke.
The new standard is likely more a function of the fact that, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.
But I'm not going to vote for a pig in a poke.
Ilford South MP Mike Gapes hinted that he would be voting against the amendment, saying he not was «not going to vote for a pig in a poke».
«It's a pig in a poke,» said E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center, estimating the cumulative cost of the deal could exceed $ 1 billion.
They absolutely will not vote Conservative, many will not vote at all, but all are completely disillusioned with the Blair / Brown years and feel like they bought a pig in a poke.
Communicating with the women only via dating sites is like you buy a pig in a poke — you do not know 100 % if the woman is a scam or not.
Five and a half hours is so extreme that it reduces market value so radically that investors would have felt they had bought a pig in a poke
Instead, they want you to take the risk and buy a pig in a poke.
It is only when the author decides to use another service that they find out that they had been sold a «Pig in a Poke» and that they didn't own anything of value (Other than the movie rights, of course).
A professional company realizes that nobody wants to buy a pig in a poke.
Remember the saying «Don't buy a pig in a poke» and don't just pick any random and cheap writer!
Why, as a reasonable thinking person, would you want to buy a pig in a poke?
Colloquially, never buy a blind pool, or a pig in a poke.
So I'm basically buying a pig in a poke.
Paying for Early Access, players don't get a polished game, and it is natural that many are not willing to pay a high price for a «pig in a poke».
Among films based on her scenario: Pig in a Poke (Dir.
Until individual site evaluation is conducted, all of the temperature data sets are «a pig in a poke», no matter how much statistical lipstick is rigorously applied.
But the MSM were the king makers who bought the pig in the poke and convinced others to buy.
They preferentially buy books that are available on - line, partly because they know they're not buying a «pig in a poke», and additionally because the on - line copies are searchable, and in effect serve as a superior index into the printed copies.
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