单词 | to bring one's pigs to market |
释义 | > as lemmasto bring (also carry, drive, etc.) one's pigs to market P6. 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 one's pigs to a fine market (chiefly ironic): to be disappointed or unsuccessful in a venture. Cf. market n. 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of persons > in an undertaking to bring one's eggs (also hogs) to a fair (also bad, etc.) market1600 to be squeezed through a horn1605 to bring one's pigs to a fine marketa1643 to go badly to market1812 the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] fanda1225 procurea1325 assay1370 workc1384 to put oneself in pressc1390 purchasec1400 buskc1450 study1483 fend15.. try1534 enterprise1547 to make an attempt?c1550 to give the venture1589 prove1612 nixuriate1623 to lay out1659 essay1715 to bring (also carry, drive, etc.) one's pigs to market1771 to have (or take or give) a crack1836 to make an out1843 to go to market1870 to give it a burl1917 to have a bash (at)1950 a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iv. iii. 64 'Tis one that brought his Pigs to the wrong market. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlv. 367 I have fished fair now..and brought my Pigs to a fine Market. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xv. 113 Strap..observed, that we had brought our pigs to a fine market. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 164 Roger may carry his pigs to another market. 1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xxii. 169 It is you that ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer; you are so wise. Only you haven't brought your own pigs to the best market. 1873 Punch 21 June 262/2 Government finds that in producing the competition Wallah, it has driven its pigs to a pretty market. 1972 Advocate News (Barbados) 7 July 4 Post-war socialism..has now brought its pigs to a fine market and the chickens have come home to roost. 1999 Los Angeles Mag. (Nexis) 1 Mar. 118 Universal failed to bring this pig to market and wins the prize for Worst Ad Campaign. < as lemmas |
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