sight unseen

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.

Example Sentences

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

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We advertised it online, and now someone from across the country wants to buy our car, sight unseen, by sending my brother a check for him to cash.

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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.

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“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.

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“In cases where people buy properties sight unseen, it would be a stronger case that they made that contract under misleading pretenses and for it to be null and void,” Leben said.

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