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  What it means

  Literally “to buy a cat in a sack.” Means to buy or accept something without examining it first — to be deceived by not checking what you’re getting. “To buy a pig in a poke.”

  Vocabulary

  • kupować — to buy
  • kot — cat
  • worek — sack, bag

  Grammar note

  'Kota' is accusative of 'kot' — direct object. 'W worku' uses the locative of 'worek' after 'w' (in).

  Cultural context

  The old market trick of selling a cat instead of a piglet in a sack — the origin of both the Polish and English versions of this idiom.

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