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

Bancel said the company hopes to have the drug on the market in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

Some Black health groups also supported keeping the drug on the market.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

He wakes up one morning to find that the trade which he has learned laboriously has overnight become a drug on the market.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels

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