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a carpet-bagger	A candidate for election who has no roots or interest in the constituency he wishes to represent. The original meaning was a Unionist financier or adventurer who exploited the cheap labour in the American South after the Civil War. The carpet bags carried by these adventurers were made of carpet material.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
acheter par francs et vendre par écus	To buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest; To sell at a high profit.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bottom of the line	The worst, the most lackluster, or lowest quality currently on the market, especially among selections in a product line.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bring out	On the market; roll out.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
catch of the day	A type of fish or other seafood which has been caught and brought to market within more-or-less the last 24 hours.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
chose qui plaît est à moitié vendue	Good wares make quick market; Please the eye and fill the purse.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
corner the market	To monopolize a resource or commodity, as with the intent of driving up prices.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
corner the market	To have exclusive possession; to possess something to a high or excessive degree.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
correlation does not imply causation	(statistics) The observed correlation between two parameters, say, the growth of a market and the growth of a neighbor's child may, in fact, have nothing to do with each other's causation.	Rate it: (2.00 / 2 votes)
difficultas annonae (Imp. Pomp. 15. 44)	want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
drug on the market	Something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
egregiam operam (multum, plus etc. operae) dare alicui rei	to expend great labour on a thing.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
faire danser l'anse (or, le manche) du panier	To make dishonest profits on marketing (of servants); To gain a market-penny.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go the way of the dinosaurs	To go extinct or become obsolete; to fall out of common use or practice; to go off the firsthand market; to become a thing of the past.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
go the way of the dodo	To go extinct or become obsolete; to fall out of common use or practice; to go out of the firsthand market; to become a thing of the past.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
grey market	Dealing in shares using methods that are legal but officially frowned upon - for example, before issue and flotation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in the money	For an option, having a strike price which makes it profitable to exercise. For a call this is a strike below the market price, or for a put a strike above the market price.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
inanem laborem suscipere	to lose one's labour.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae	want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
join forces	to combine labour, to come together, to unite	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
l'esprit court les rues	Wit is a drug in the market.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Labour of Love	To do something free of money, work done for love and pleasure, not for the sake of money	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
labour of love	UK spelling of labor of love.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
market day	The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
market day	Used other than as an idiom: see market, day.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
married sector	Any of two or more flight sectors in an itinerary that can not be rebooked or changed separately from the other sectors, due to fare rules or market restrictions.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
meat market	Or night club.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
meat market	A market where meat is sold.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere	to lose one's labour.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere	to expend great labour on a thing.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
operam alicui rei tribuere, in aliquid conferre	to expend great labour on a thing.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
prawn cocktail offensive	A strategy of the Labour Party in winning over important people in the world of finance.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
price out of the market	To charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
res est multi laboris et sudoris	the matter involves much labour and fatigue.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sell in may and go away	"Sell in May and go away" is a popular adage or saying in the stock market that suggests investors should sell their stocks or investments in May and stay out of the market until the end of October. The idea behind this saying is that the stock market tends to experience weaker performance during the summer months, particularly from May to October. This pattern is often attributed to factors such as reduced trading activity, lower corporate earnings reports, or investors' vacation periods.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
seller's market	An excess of demand over supply, leading to abnormally high prices; a market condition favoring the seller.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
socialized medicine	A politically charged term used to contrast such systems with free market alternatives and emphasize the perceived link to socialism.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
sweat equity	An investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
tractor out	To dismiss while replacing manual labour with tractors.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
trump up	Heavily publicise, promote or market a product.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
twin seam	Two dual stitched seams, offset from each other, inserted into center of a jean for flexibility	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
winter sun	the off-season holiday market, typically to destinations in North Africa and Southern Europe.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)