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Idioms and Phrases

Without having viewed the object in question, as in He bought the horse sight unseen . This seeming oxymoron—how can a sight , which means something seen, be not seen?—dates from the late 1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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