drive one's pigs to market
drive one's pigs to market verb: to snore very loudly.
Verb
drive one's pigs to market (third-person singular simple present drives one's pigs to market, present participle driving one's pigs to market, simple past drove one's pigs to market, past participle driven one's pigs to market)
- To snore very loudly.
- […] when he suddenly declared his intention of retiring to bed, which he immediately did, and in about ten minutes after he might have been heard "driving his pigs to market"—if the reader will allow the phrase.1868, Mary Chester, Memoirs of Madam Chester of Manchester, by herself, page 12
- I got him up to where we were camped, and he went to sleep right away, and snored enough for a dozen. He was so busy driving his pigs to market that I could not get to sleep; […]1881, Alexander Bathgate, Waitaruna: A Story of New Zealand Life, page 278
Forms of drive one's pigs to market
| third-person singular present | drives one's pigs to market |
|---|---|
| present participle | driving one's pigs to market |
| past | drove one's pigs to market |
| past participle | driven one's pigs to market |
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- What does drive one's pigs to market mean?
- Drive one's pigs to market means to snore very loudly.
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- Drive one's pigs to market is a verb.
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- The past tense of drive one's pigs to market is drove one's pigs to market.
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