英语词汇“to bring one's eggs to a fair market”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†d. to bring one's eggs (also hogs) to a fair (also bad, etc.) market (chiefly ironic): to be unsuccessful in a venture. See also to bring one's pigs to a fine market at pig n.¹ Phrases 6. Obsolete.

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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

1600 Looke about You sig. D2^v My fa fa father has brought his ho ho hoges to a fa fa faire m m market.

1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge i. sig. B3 We haue Brought our eggs and muskadine to a faire market.

1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 5/1 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) You have spun a fair threed, you have brought your hogs to a fair market. Spoken in derision when a business hath sped ill.

1725 New-England Courant 8–15 Feb. 1/2 Certainly the Devil had brought himself as well as his Hogs to a fine Market, when he was thus expos'd to Sale in a Dram-Shop.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. ix. 314 The schoolmaster..brought his eggs to a bad market.

单词	to bring one's eggs to a fair market
释义	> as lemmas to bring one's eggs (also hogs) to a fair (also bad, etc.) market †d. to bring one's eggs (also hogs) to a fair (also bad, etc.) market (chiefly ironic): to be unsuccessful in a venture. See also to bring one's pigs to a fine market at pig n.¹ Phrases 6. Obsolete. 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 1600 Looke about You sig. D2^v My fa fa father has brought his ho ho hoges to a fa fa faire m m market. 1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge i. sig. B3 We haue Brought our eggs and muskadine to a faire market. 1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 5/1 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) You have spun a fair threed, you have brought your hogs to a fair market. Spoken in derision when a business hath sped ill. 1725 New-England Courant 8–15 Feb. 1/2 Certainly the Devil had brought himself as well as his Hogs to a fine Market, when he was thus expos'd to Sale in a Dram-Shop. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. ix. 314 The schoolmaster..brought his eggs to a bad market. extracted from marketn. < as lemmas
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