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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Market

Forsake not the market for the toll.

He loses his market who has nothing to sell.Spanish.

He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one.

He that sits to work in the market-place shall have many teachers.Spanish.

It is better to have a friend on the market than money in one’s coffer.Spanish.

No grass grows in the market-place.

No man makes haste to the market where nothing is to be bought but blows.

No means, no market.

No one has a good market for bad merchandise.French.

One may come soon enough to an ill market.

The lamentation of a bad market.

There is a great difference between market days.

Three women and a goose make a market (or fair).German.

You have brought your pigs to a fine market.

You may know by the market folks how the market goes.