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Re: Survivor Stock
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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:38:32 -0400
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> you buy a pig in a poke

I used this expression last summer, incorrectly as it turns out. You have used it rightly. It refers to the ruse of selling a piglet in a sack (poke) which the buyer discovers later to be a stray cat. Caveat emptor! 

Pete

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