单词 | to mend one's market |
释义 | > as lemmasto mend one's market ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)] > improve one's bargain to mend one's market1543 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 366 The market he so mended manyfolde. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 106 So farre off are you from mending your market any whit thereby. 1679 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (ed. 3) 177 By becomin Religious, he may mend his market, perhaps get a rich wife, or more, and for better customers to his shop. 1709 S. Sewall Diary 17 Feb. (1973) II. 615 Mr. Gerrish had courted Mr. Conney's daughter: and if she should have Mr. Stoddard, she would mend her market. < as lemmas |
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