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cattle market

British

noun

slang a situation or place, such as a beauty contest or nightclub, in which women are felt to be, or feel themselves to be, on display and judged solely by their appearance

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Among predator losses, wolves accounted for 2,040 adult cattle and 8,110 calves—small numbers in a national cattle market of tens of millions of animals.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

"It was like a cattle market," he tells me.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023

He remembered it being "just a cattle market" and didn't like how the guests were corralled.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2022

The administration will also seek to improve the transparency of the cattle market.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2022

And then Nest would call for her mother, and Eleanor would go, and invent some strange story about the summonses Edward had had to Caernarvon assizes, or to Harlech cattle market.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

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