市いち

Meanings

Usage patterns

• 〈場ば所しょ〉で市いちを開ひらくto hold a market (at a place)

  毎まい週しゅう日にち曜よう日びに広ひろ場ばで市いちを開ひらく。

  They hold a market in the square every Sunday.

• 〈物もの〉を市いちに出だすto put something up for sale at the market

  農のう家かが取とれたての野や菜さいを市いちに出だした。

  The farmer brought freshly picked vegetables to sell at the market.

• 市いちで〈物もの〉を買かうto buy something at the market

  朝あさ市いちで新しん鮮せんな魚さかなを買かった。

  I bought some fresh fish at the morning market.

Expressions

• 市いちを成なすform a crowd; draw a crowd
• 市いちが立たつ日ひmarket day
• 市いちに虎とらありpeople will believe a falsehood if many repeat it; argumentum ad populum
• 市いちに虎とらを放はなつlet a fox into the henhouse; do something dangerous; let loose a tiger in the marketplace
• 門もん前ぜん市いちをなすhave many visitors; be bustling with callers