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meat markets

n. (meat market English)

Usage examples of "meat markets".

In the meat markets animals hung by strings from their feet: pigeons, ground squirrels, and succulent young lambs.

And at the meat markets whole hogs hung by their necks, split open the length of their great bodies to show the red meat and the layers of goodly fat, the skin soft and thick and white.

Either of those extremes, top or bottom, might put pressure on us to dispose of our stock and menagerie to the meat markets.

Costless but sweating profusely, he walked down the wide boulevard with what semblance of casuainess he could muster, scanning the long lines of workers waiting outside the meat markets, stamp- ing and exhaling clouds like steaming horses.

Green grocers, meat markets, a bakery whose smell of freshly baked breads and pastries permeated the air.

Glavoirei was the first to go down, his leg a shattered hunk of meat worse than anything one might see in the open-air meat markets.

Her mother thought these places were meat markets, and indeed they were, the meat being the customers.

We are going to band together with our neighbors to clean up our neighborhoods, to get the crooks out of the unions, to get the prices down in the meat markets.