blind bargain

Example Sentences

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But he’ll strike a blind bargain in there.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine

If I get paradise when my time comes, I can't help myself; but I'll venture nothing before-hand, upon a blind bargain.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

And for once I'll make a blind bargain with you.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Poke, pōk, n. a bag: a pouch.—A pig in a poke, a blind bargain, as of a pig bought without being seen.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Although Murray considered it "a blind bargain," he was disposed to accept it, as it might lead to something better.

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel