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单词 to mar another's market
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to mar another's (also one's) market
c. Chiefly figurative. to mar another's (also one's) market: to spoil another's or one's own trade. Cf. to queer the pitch at queer v.2 2b. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade illegally or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > trade in sordid or petty manner > in a way to ruin or spoil business
to mar another's (also one's) market1529
to queer the pitch1846
1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader lx. sig. Ni He that sayeth it is better to geve our cherite to the poore..goth aboute to marre the Popes markette.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. ii. 17 in Wks. II Marre my market, thou too-proud Pedler?.. I pay for my ground, as well as thou dost.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. F3 There was in him..an humor of travelling..which had not some wise man about him, laboured to remove..he would out of his owne native propruseion, marred his owne market.
1754 S. Foote Knights ii. 45 I'll be even with them! I'll marr their Market!
1783 H. B. Dudley Magic Picture iv. ii. 66 I think I've marr'd his market, come what may.
extracted from marketn.
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