Name:   lakngulf - Subject:   Cat's new Traeger Date:   5/5/2014 2:02:45 AM (updated 5/5/2014 2:04:56 AM)

Is that a "pig in a poke" or a poke at a pig?

A pig that's in a poke might turn out to be no pig at all. If a merchant tried to cheat by substituting a lower value animal, the trick could be uncovered by letting the cat out of the bag. Many other European languages have a version of this phrase - most of them translating into English as a warning not to 'buy a cat in a bag'. The advice has stood the test of time and people have been repeating it in one form or the other for getting on for five hundred years, maybe longer.