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.
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.
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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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The snorting cry of a pig.
British slang meaning to go away or get lost — equivalent to 'sod off' or 'piss off.' The 'pig' substitutes as a softened expletive element, making the phrase slightly less aggressive in tone while retaining the dismissive intent. Used in British informal speech.
(transitive, vulgar, slang, idiom) To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.
(AU, slang) To make a foolish fuss.
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(slang) To snore very loudly.
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