Reckoning without your HostTo guess what your expenses at an hotel will be before the bill has been delivered; to enter upon an enterprise without knowing the cost. “We thought that now our troubles were over; ... but we reckoned without our host.” —Macmillan's Magazine, 1887. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Reckoning without your Host from Infoplease:
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