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kaupa_köttinn_í_sekknum

kaupa köttinn í sekknum

Icelandic

Idiom

kaupa köttinn í sekknum ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative keypti köttinn í sekknum, supine keypt köttinn í sekknum)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to be sold a pig in a poke

Etymology

From kaupa ‎(“to buy”) and köttinn ‎(“the cat”) the definite accusative singular form of köttur ‎(“a cat”) and í ‎(“in”) and sekknum ‎(“the sack”) the definite dative singular of sekkur ‎(“a sack”), literally meaning to "buy the cat in the sack".

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