| 单词 | to stand the market |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stand the market 13. transitive. British regional or slang. To work at or tend to (a market stall or shop). Chiefly in to stand the market: to attend a market in order to sell goods or (formerly) to hire oneself out as a servant or labourer (cf. to overstand one's (also the) market). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > go to market to sell market1636 to stand the market1756 1756 T. Turner Diary 7 Feb. (1984) (modernized text) 42 In the morn got up and went over to Framfield in order to get my brother Moses to come over to stand the shop whilst my wife and I went to Dicker Fair. 1788 Dumfries Weekly Jrnl. 6 May Every shoemaker who shall stand the market with shoes to sell. 1855 Grantham Jrnl. 17 Nov. Here was I and my daughter, standing the market last Saturday..all in the rain. 1886 Ripon Chron. 4 Sept. 3/5 The first harvest hirings were held at Malton on Saturday, when there was a good number of men ‘standing the market’. 1898 R. Blakeborough Wit N. Riding Yorks. 454 Ah've stooden Bedale market ivver sen Ah wur a larl nipper. 2013 @katieskostumes 9 May in twitter.com (accessed 2 Aug. 2021) We shall be standing the market in barnsley this sunday lots of bargains with prices from 50p. < as lemmas |
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