Drive one's pigs to market is a colourful slang idiom meaning to snore very loudly — specifically the kind of stentorian, room-shaking snoring that keeps others awake. The metaphor evokes the grunting, squealing noise of pigs being driven along a road, mapped onto the cacophony of heavy snoring. It is a whimsical, euphemistic phrase that softens an otherwise antisocial habit with humour. Found in British and Australian slang collections; register is informal and good-natured.
She could hear him driving his pigs to market through two closed doors and a wall of pillows.
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(slang) To snore very loudly.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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