Að kaupa köttinn í sekknum — Icelandic Saying Mug

Að kaupa köttinn í sekknum
Literally: “To buy the cat in the sack.”

To buy something sight unseen. The English get a pig in a poke. We get a cat. The cat is angrier.

Part of our Old Sayings, Literally collection — real Icelandic proverbs with their gloriously literal English translations. Printed on demand on a glossy 11 oz ceramic mug and shipped worldwide.