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Reportedly first attested 1892
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sight unseen (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Not having seen the object beforehand.
1902, Myrtle Reed, chapter 5, in Lavender and Old Lace:When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.
2005 August 2, Michiko Kakutani, “They'll Take Manhattan, for a Million or More”, in The New York Times, retrieved 1 Sep. 2008:More than $300 million worth of condominiums were sold in the new Time Warner complex sight unseen while the building was still under construction.
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