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单词 to bring one's pigs to market
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to 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.
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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.
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