drug on the market

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand. idiomatic
    — for days and days he patrolled the town in vain; seeking for work, and finding none. The place, as his candid informer had said, was filled with clerks like himself in search of employment; and they, linguists especially, were a drug in the market — the cessation of the Franco-German War having flooded the country with foreign labour.

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