Tony Sweeney writes:
> In British English, it's "never buy a pig in a poke", where 'poke' is
> an archaic word for 'bag'. There is another slang phrase, to "let the
OK. thanks for the information!
> cat out of the bag", which is to reveal the truth, for instance that
There is exactly the same phrase in German!
> the pig in the poke is actually a cat. Evidently, passing cats off
> unseen as piglets has a long and storied history.
>
> I now return you to the bugzilla hissy-fest.
>
OK ;-)
Thanks,
Egbert.
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