bellies

bellies

Pork belly contracts, as on the stock market. Are we selling these underperforming bellies or what?
See also: belly
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bellies

n. pork bellies; pork belly futures. (Securities markets. Often with the.) Buy the bellies and sell the beans.
See also: belly
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • air (one's) belly
  • air belly
  • air one’s belly
  • belly fiddle
  • airing
  • belly out
  • belly button
  • have a yellow belly
  • beer belly
  • German goiter
References in periodicals archive
The media images of ultra-thin women (often they are fake, altered images) can trick us into thinking our bellies should be flat and tight.
genetic parameters for characteristics of pork bellies. Proc.
* Happy Bellies Organic Multigrain Baby Cereal (Organic Oats, Organic Quinoa, and Organic Amaranth--making this variety a heady source of protein and dietary fiber)
The digastric muscle is a suprahyoid muscle formed by two muscle bellies: one anterior and the other posterior.
Some Sneeches had stars on their bellies, and some did not.
Pork bellies, a byproduct of lean hogs, are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
The Ibrox star told Evans to be like his pal Jimmy Five Bellies. "Jimmy had some fluff in his belly button this morning - it was a continental quilt."
However, the carp exposed to pike grew much larger bellies, the researchers discovered--despite the fact that the added bulk increased their drag through the water, requiring them to swim harder.
Gazza's pal Five Bellies said last night: "I'm no dole cheat."
Soccer bad boy Paul Gascoigne tricked his pal Jimmy Five Bellies into eating CAT POOH.
Rangers bad boy Gazza tricked Jimmy Five Bellies into eating cat POO.
Not all beer drinkers have beer bellies and some teetotallers have large ones.