单词 | to milk the market |
释义 | > as lemmasto milk the market (also street) c. transitive. Originally U.S. Stock Market slang. to milk the market (also street) [i.e. Wall Street] : to hold stock so well in hand as to make it fluctuate at will, and so yield any financial result desired. In extended use: to exploit opportunistically and to maximum advantage or effect. ΚΠ 1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 336 To use the slang of the financial quarter, they ‘milk the street’. 1883 Harper's Mag. May 820/2 The..process of ‘milking the market’. 1900 Polit. Sci. Q. 15 185 When profit cannot be secured by making goods and selling them, it may often be gained by ‘milking’ the market for the stock. 1991 Shakespeare Q. 42 139 Intertextuality between ballads—if that is not too grand a term for how balladers milked the market—is well documented. < as lemmas |
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