to bring one's eggs (also hogs) to a fair (also bad,etc.) market (chiefly ironic): to be unsuccessful in a venture. See also to bring one's pigs t…
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| 释义 | the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of persons > in an undertaking (5) to bring one's eggs (also hogs) to a fair (also bad, etc.) market1600 to bring one's eggs (also hogs) to a fair (also bad,etc.) market (chiefly ironic): to be unsuccessful in a venture. See also to bring one's pigs t… to be squeezed through a horn1605 Phrases and proverbs. to be squeezed through a horn (also to come out at the little end of the horn): to come off badly in an affair, esp. to fail… to bring one's pigs to a fine marketa1643 to bring (also carry, drive,etc.) one's pigs to market: to try to do business or get results; to succeed in realizing one's potential. to bring on… to go badly to market1812 to go badly to market: to lose money betting on a horse race. Cf. sense 1c. Obsolete. rare. Subcategories:— for the sake of a detail (1) |
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