drug on the market

Idioms  

1. A commodity whose supply greatly exceeds the demand for it. For example, Now that asbestos is considered dangerous, asbestos tile is a drug on the market. The use of the noun drug in the sense of “something overabundant” (as opposed to a medicine or narcotic) dates from the mid-1600s, but the first record of the full expression, put as drug in the market, dates only from the 1830s.

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drug on the market

True, retatrutide might soon be the most powerful “triple agonist” anti-obesity drug on the market.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

Novartis and MMV are aiming to have the drug on the market in one to 1½ years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Biogen will be required to provide confirmatory evidence, from ongoing clinical research, to keep the drug on the market.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

If approved, it would be the second anti-amyloid drug on the market.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

Traders go to a market where they can dispose of their goods, not to a place where their kind of goods are a drug on the market.

From Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew