Sentence examples for blind pig from inspiring English sources

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blind pig

noun

A blind tiger or speakeasy.

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Even a blind pig finds an acorn".

Still, you never know when an acorn can find a blind pig.

"This is a blind pig finding an occasional acorn," he said.

"I'm a blind pig hoping to find a truffle," he said.

The Woods Inn has in its time been a hotel, a cathouse and a blind pig.

BLIND PIG WHO WANTS TO FLY Opens on Friday in Manhattan.

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They know only the bars of liners, the blind pigs, & red-leather speakeasies of the Fifties.

According to police records, the gallery lacked proper city permits for after-hours dancing and drinking, and an old ordinance aimed at "blind pigs" (speakeasies) and other places of "illegal occupation" made it a crime to patronize such a place, knowingly or not.

(Still, if he does say so himself, the Bagger has chosen the best picture winner two years running, so there is some merit to the blind-pig-finding-nuts approach).

Or it may seem like proof that, in the author's case, even a blind and snoutless pig will occasionally find a truffle.

And there is a pig, presumably blind and tethered in an empty field, which the camera lingers on several times.

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