"sight unseen" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Reportedly first attested 1892",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "sight unseen (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English cognate expressions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English negative polarity items",
          "parents": [
            "Negative polarity items",
            "Terms by semantic function"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, Myrtle Reed, chapter 5, in Lavender and Old Lace",
          "text": "When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 August 2, Michiko Kakutani, “They'll Take Manhattan, for a Million or More”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2008-09-01",
          "text": "More than $300 million worth of condominiums were sold in the new Time Warner complex sight unseen while the building was still under construction.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not having seen the object beforehand."
      ],
      "id": "en-sight_unseen-en-adj-s1ULpTMY",
      "links": [
        [
          "beforehand",
          "beforehand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Not having seen the object beforehand."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "pig in a poke"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "dated"
          ],
          "word": "unsight unseen"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "not seen beforehand",
          "word": "näkemätön"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "not seen beforehand",
          "word": "les yeux fermés"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "not seen beforehand",
          "word": "usett"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "not seen beforehand",
          "word": "usett"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "not seen beforehand",
          "tags": [
            "adverb"
          ],
          "word": "w ciemno"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "not seen beforehand",
          "word": "bez oglądania"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːn"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sight unseen.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-au-sight_unseen.ogg/En-au-sight_unseen.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-au-sight_unseen.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "sīt′-ŭn-sēn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sight unseen"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Reportedly first attested 1892",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "sight unseen (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pig in a poke"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English cognate expressions",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English negative polarity items",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Rhymes:English/iːn",
        "Rhymes:English/iːn/3 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, Myrtle Reed, chapter 5, in Lavender and Old Lace",
          "text": "When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 August 2, Michiko Kakutani, “They'll Take Manhattan, for a Million or More”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2008-09-01",
          "text": "More than $300 million worth of condominiums were sold in the new Time Warner complex sight unseen while the building was still under construction.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not having seen the object beforehand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beforehand",
          "beforehand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Not having seen the object beforehand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːn"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sight unseen.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-au-sight_unseen.ogg/En-au-sight_unseen.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-au-sight_unseen.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "sīt′-ŭn-sēn"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "unsight unseen"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not seen beforehand",
      "word": "näkemätön"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not seen beforehand",
      "word": "les yeux fermés"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not seen beforehand",
      "word": "usett"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "not seen beforehand",
      "word": "usett"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not seen beforehand",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ],
      "word": "w ciemno"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not seen beforehand",
      "word": "bez oglądania"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sight unseen"
}