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drive one's pigs to market en · VERB
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(slang) To snore very loudly.
[…] when he suddenly declared his intention of retiring to bed, which he immediately did, and in about ten minutes after he might have been heard "driving his pigs to market"—if the reader will allow the phrase.
1868, Mary Chester, Memoirs of Madam Chester of Manchester, by herself, page 12:I got him up to where we were camped, and he went to sleep right away, and snored enough for a dozen. He was so busy driving his pigs to market that I could not get to sleep; […]
1881, Alexander Bathgate, Waitaruna: A Story of New Zealand Life, page 278:
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