20 Metaphors for market

A Russian market is a thing of joy and colour.

The Jews' Market is a series of covered arcades with a square in the middle of it, and in the middle of the square a little church with some doll-like trees.

Next is a tallowchandler's business in a situation which "will command an extensive trade immediately the new Fleet Market is erected"rather anticipatory, to be sure.

The old fish-market at Troy was just a sagged lean-to roof on the northern side of the Town Quay, resting against the dead wall of the harbour-master's house, and propped in front by four squat granite columns.

The market is spot, and buyers must take delivery immediately, as usually not a single security is left at the end of the day's trading.

A public market, where the producer from the farm and the city consumer can meet, is an old institution.

The market is a never failing place of amusement to a foreigner, for there a crowd of the common people is always to be seen, and their mode of conducting business may be observed.

The principal markets for the snuff-boxes are London, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.

Here by the river was in fact the market in the modern sense of the word; the Forum Romanum, which we are making for, was now the centre of political and judicial business, and of social life.

Indeed," I added, "the apple market at the head of the Sacred Way is the very image of Scrofa's fruit house.

The markets are well stocked with a variety of fish, taken both in the Laguna and bay of Manila, affording a supply of both the fresh and salt water species, and many smaller kinds that are dried and smoked.

The new market was clearly an injury to the rights of a neighbouring abbot or baron or town gild, or it lessened the profits of the "king's market" in some borough on the royal demesne.

And answers himself as follows: "The grim, ugly fact is that trade is a fight, the markets are battle fields, the traders are gladiators, carrying on a true war around questions of values, with no care whether the opposing party or the community at large can afford that the trade is made.

Yes, and those markets were our Shambles.

Their chief market is the North of Europe, especially Poland, and the business was consequently much depressed on account of the troubles in that country.

On a day when the local philanthropy market was slack, and Miss Holland, seated in the Bonnie Lassie's front window, was maturing some new and benign outrage upon our sensibilities, she called out to the sculptress at work on a group: "There's a queer man making queer marks on your sidewalk.

SMITHFIELD or SMOOTHFIELD, an open space of ground in London, N. of Newgate, long famous for its live-stock markets; in olden times lay outside the city walls, and was used as a place of recreation and of executions; the scene of William Wallace's execution and the death of Wat Tyler; gradually surrounded by the encroaching city, the cattle-market became a nuisance, and was abolished in 1855; is partly laid out as a garden.

It is held that in the event of war the home market in Germany would be an important factor in maintaining intact the fabric of industry.

Now, "market" is a word which was originally used to denote a place where tangible commodities were bought and sold; and the more closely we examine the phenomena of the Capital Market, the more closely do we perceive the profound resemblance between the mechanism of borrowing and lending, and that of buying and selling.

This market is the Stock Exchange in which securities of all kinds and of all countries are dealt in.

20 Metaphors for  market