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I'm in the market
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มีอีกคำนะ
"off market"
จริงๆ = An off-market deal involves buying or selling shares, but not on an official stockmarket
= แบบ ถ้าขายออกแล้ว ไม่โสดแล้วไรงี้อะ ก็เคยเห็นพิธีกรทีวีเค้าใช้คำนี้ตอนคิม คาร์ดาเชี่ยนแต่งงานอะ ฮ่าฮ่าฮ่า

อื่นๆ ที่เกี่ยวกับมาร์เก็ต

*in the market (for something)
= Fig. wanting to buy something. (*Typically: be ~; find oneself ~.)
- I'm in the market for a new camera. If you have a boat for sale, we're in the market.

*on the market
= openly available for sale. (*Typically: be ~; get something ~; put something ~.)
- We put our house on the market last year and it still hasn't sold.

*corner the market on something and corner the something market
= Fig. to develop or obtain a monopoly of something.
- The company sought to corner the market on frozen yogurt.
- Standard Oil had the oil market cornered at the end of the nineteenth century.

*like a blind dog in a meat market
= out of control.
- The drunk staggered out of the saloon like a blind dog in a meat market, stumbling all over the sidewalk.
- The kids tore through the museum like a blind dog in a meat market, touching everything they weren't supposed to touch.

*play the (stock) market
= to invest in the stock market. (As if it were a game or as if it were gambling.)
- Would you rather put your money in the bank or play the market?
- I've learned my lesson playing the market. I lost a fortune.

*price someone or something out of the market
= to raise or lower a price and drive someone or something out of the marketplace.
- You are a very good singer, but your agent has priced you out of the market.
- The discount prices posted by the chain store were meant to price us out of the market.

* a cattle market (British, American & Australian informal)
* also a meat market (American & Australian informal)
= a place where people go to see sexually attractive women or to find sexual partners Beauty contests are just cattle markets.
- That new nightclub called The Venue is awful - it's a real meat market.

* be in the market for something
= to be interested in buying something and to have the money to be able to do so
- As lovely as it is, we're really not in the market for a five-bedroomed house.

* corner the market
= to become so successful at selling or making a particular product that almost no one else sells or makes it.
- They've more or less cornered the fast-food market - they're in every big city in the country.

* the bottom drops/falls out of the market
= If the bottom drops out of the market of a product, people stop buying it.
- The bottom fell out of the art market and dealers were left with hundreds of unsaleable paintings.

*corner the market also have a corner on the market
= to control the supply or sale of a particular product.
- The company tried to corner the market on several types of computer software.

*in the market for something
= interested in buying something.
- I'm not in the market for a car at the moment.

*on the market
= for sale
- We put our house on the market last spring.

*play the market
= to try to earn money by buying and selling shares in companies.
- These traders are people who play the market for profit.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/market

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