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Meaning of drive one's pigs to market | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To snore very loudly.

slang

Examples

“[…] 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.”
“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; […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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