| 单词 | the traffic will bear |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as much as) the traffic will bear (or stand) P1. (as much as) the traffic will bear (or stand) and variants: (as much as) the market will permit; (as much as) is economically viable. Also figurative.Originally in the context of railway transportation: see sense 8a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [phrase] > as much as trade will bear (as much as) the traffic will bear (or stand)1867 1867 Royal Comm. Railways: Minutes of Evid. 1865–6 733/1 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3844-I) XXXVIII. 127 They [sc. railway companies] quote you a rate without reference to the items of which it is composed, and entirely without reference to their Acts of Parliament, what they think, as the phrase is, the traffic will bear. I have said there ‘what they can get out of it’. 1888 Open Court 25 Oct. 1280/2 The bridge between the original producer and the final consumer may be long or short, and the person who carries the ‘projuice’ over it may be an extortioner, but..he cannot get any more than the traffic will bear. 1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. v. ii. 853 His wage-earners had their rents raised to all the traffic would bear. 1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners vii. 155 We've had all the worry about you that the traffic will stand. 1982 T. Fitzgibbon With Love i. v. 32 The small neighbourhood shops were..willing to give credit up to a pound, but no more. They knew to a penny what the traffic would bear. 2007 Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 May The old rule of commerce is that a seller may charge as much as the traffic will bear. < as lemmas |
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