sight unseen

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Sports media figures and podcast bros couldn’t simply dismiss San Francisco sight unseen because they had to be there for their jobs.

From Salon

Jayla never thought she’d buy a house pretty much sight unseen, much less one off the coast of Italy.

From Slate

“Greg,” Eisman said, “I want to short his paper. Sight unseen.”

From Literature

I understand trying different things to hopefully meet your match, so this experiment to me feels like a more fruitful journey compared to other dating shows because the premise is to force people to have hard conversations quickly, sight unseen.

From Los Angeles Times

“I called and said, ‘I have experience at Macy’s doing Christmas,’ and they literally gave me the job sight unseen over the phone because experience at Macy’s had so much clout,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times