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drug on the market
drug on the market
Something that is not in great demand because it is abundantly available. Mobile phones are a drug on the market these days, which is why they're so affordable.
drug on the market
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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Lidia | | LEED-yah (Polish), LEE-dyah (Italian), LEE-dhyah (Spanish) | Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian |
| Aarthi | | - | Tamil |
| Clifford | | KLIF-ərd | English |
| Alberte (1) | | al-BER-te | Galician |
| Randolph | | RAN-dahlf | English |
| Philander | | - | English (Archaic), Greek Mythology (Latinized) |