| 单词 | drug on the market |
| 释义 | drug on the marketA commodity whose supply greatly exceeds the demand for it. For example, Now that asbestos is considered dangerous, asbestos tile is a drug on the market. The use of the noun drug in the sense of “something overabundant” (as opposed to a medicine or narcotic) dates from the mid-1600s, but the first record of the full expression, put as drug in the market, dates only from the 1830s. Words nearby drug on the marketdrug interaction, drugless, drug lord, drugmaker, drugola, drug on the market, drug psychosis, drugpusher, drug rash, drugstore, drugstore cowboy The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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