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...comprare gatta in sacco...
...acheter chat en sac...
...to buy a pig in a poke...

The phrase is recorded in John Heywood's Proverbs (1546). In Europe it was semi-proverbial and all the languages, Romance and Germanic, have cat instead of pig, English being the exception.

-- (С) Linda & Roger Flavell Dictionary of idioms and their origins