kaupa köttinn í sekknum - Idiomatically

Icelandic

Pronunciation

kaupa kottinn i sekknum

Literal Translation

buy the cat in the sack

Equivalent idioms in other languages

This is how you express this idiom across languages and locales.

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Chinese
隔山買牛
buy a cow over there in another mountain
Czech
zajíc v pytli
hare in a bag
Dutch
een kat in de zak kopen
to buy a cat in a bag
English
Pig in a poke
German
die Katze im Sack kaufen
to buy the cat in the bag
Greek
γουρούνι στο σακί
pig in a sack
Hungarian
zsákbamacska
cat in a sack
Portuguese
nabos em saco
bagged turnips
Russian
кот в мешке
cat in a bag
Spanish
dar gato por liebre
give cat for hare