drive one's pigs to market

verb

To snore very loudly.

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Meanings

verbdrive 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)

present singular third person drives one's pigs to market · participle present driving one's pigs to market · past drove one's pigs to market · participle past driven one's pigs to market

  1. slangTo snore very loudly.

    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
    1 more example

    […] 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
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