bring one's own hide to market

短语

词形变化

bringing one's own hide to market brings one's own hide to market 三单 brings one's own hide to market brought one's own hide to market bringing one's own hide to market 现在分词 brought one's own hide to market 过去式 brought one's own hide to market 过去分词

别名

carry one's own hide to market take one's own hide to market

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To create one's own fate, as a result of one's chosen character and actions; to experience the appropriate consequences of one's behavior.

    美国 习语

词源

Probably from a German proverb, notably adapted by Karl Marx to describe the exploited worker who must sell himself (his own hide) in the labor market; the denotative metaphoric analogy is to bringing animal hides to market, but simultaneously also the self-evident connotative overtones are of chattel slavery and prostitution, in which human corporeality is exploited and personhood is devalued; in the quote below, the word hiding lends both its literal and figurative senses to the parsing: both literal skinning (of an animal) and also flogging and fleecing (of a person, that is, beating and robbing): : 1867, Karl Marx, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, Capital, vol. 1 ch. 6: :: [T]he possessor of labour-power follows […] , timid and holding back, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but — a hiding.

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