drive one's pigs to market

English

Verb

drive one's pigs to market (third-person singular simple present drives one's pigs to market, present participle driving one's pigs to market, simple past drove one's pigs to market, past participle driven one's pigs to market)

1. (slang) To snore very loudly.
   • 1868, Mary Chester, Memoirs of Madam Chester of Manchester, by herself, page 12:

     […] when he suddenly declared his intention of retiring to bed, which he immediately did, and in about ten minutes after he might have been heard "driving his pigs to market"—if the reader will allow the phrase.

   • 1881, Alexander Bathgate, Waitaruna: A Story of New Zealand Life, page 278:

     I got him up to where we were camped, and he went to sleep right away, and snored enough for a dozen. He was so busy driving his pigs to market that I could not get to sleep; […]