单词 | sight unseen |
释义 | sight unseenWithout having viewed the object in question, as in He bought the horse sight unseen. This seeming oxymoron—how can a sight, which means something seen, be not seen?—dates from the late 1800s. Words nearby sight unseensight-read, sight rhyme, sight screen, sightsee, sightseeing, sight unseen, sigil, sigillate, SIGINT, Sigismund, Sigismund II The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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