| 词组 | glutting |
| 释义 | (redirected from glutting)glut on the marketSomething that is not in great demand because it is abundantly available. Mobile phones are a glut on the market these days, which is why they're so affordable. glut (someone or something) with (something)To fill someone or something with an excessive amount of something. Thanks a lot for glutting the folder with invoices—now I can't find anything. Mom, please don't glut the kids with snacks today, OK? I'd really like it if they ate their dinner. a drug on the marketand a glut on the marketsomething that is on the market in great abundance. Right now, small computers are a drug on the market. Twenty years ago, small transistor radios were a glut on the market. glut someone or something with somethingto overfill someone or something with something. The hungry lions glutted themselves with the meat of their recent kill. Sally would glut herself with doughnuts, given the chance. a drug on the marketan unsaleable or valueless commodity.Drug in the sense of ‘a commodity for which there is no demand’ is recorded from the mid 17th century, but it is not clear from the word's history whether it is the same word as the medicinal substance. 1998 Spectator Merchant banks are a drug on the market these days. |
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