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<DIV>Is the following relevant to the bodybuilders' use of "meat market"?
I.e. is there a sexual implication?</DIV>
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<DIV>From some fiction text in the the British National Corpus:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>He said, "Tell me about the hotel."
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<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>"A few itinerants. Some labourers from the sticks
living cheap while they get the job finished. One or two people who'll be
sleeping rough if they can't beg the room rate. The streets round about are a
<STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>meat market</FONT></STRONG>; couples rent by the
half-hour. ... I don't think many of them are man and wife."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>And from unscripted conversation in the spoken BNC:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>A: </FONT> <FONT face=Courier size=2>thirty
quid to get in --</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>B: cor.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>A: -- but it's so expensive, these night
life places, I mean they charge the earth for drinks and that, don't they?
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>B: Yeah. Yours is Crystals. Any good?
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>A: Yeah, ain't bad. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>B: It's good? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Courier size=2>A: 's not bad. It's a bit of a <FONT
color=#0000ff><STRONG>meat market</STRONG></FONT>. There's loads of like, well,
that's how these places are anyway. All you do, discos and that are always the
same, you got women dancing round their handbags, Tracy and Stacy and all those.
Tracy, Sam, and Cheryl. .... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=3>NODE explains it
as:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG>"meat market</STRONG></FONT> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>informal</FONT> a meeting place such as a bar or disco for people seeking
sexual encounters."</DIV>
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<DIV>Merriam Webster says:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=4><STRONG>"meat
market</STRONG></FONT> <FONT size=3>a depersonalizing environment in which
people are treated as sexual or economic
resources."</FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Interesting difference. ... Is this a British/American difference, or a
historical difference?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* * * </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Incidentally, I think the NODE register label here ought to be "figurative"
rather than "informal". MW does not have a label at all. </DIV>
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<DIV>It is unfortunate that dictionaries do not record
that expressions such as "<FONT color=#0000ff>meat market</FONT>" are
used both literally (compositionally) and as conventional metaphors -- in
contrast to, say, "red <FONT color=#0000ff>herring</FONT>", which as far as
I know is never used compositionally. </DIV>
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<DIV>Patrick Hanks</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 4:26 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: RE: [Lexicog] "meat market" as
bodybuilders</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> <BR>> Fritz,<BR>> <BR>> The
expression "meat market" to mean a gym or body builders hangout, is a<BR>>
satiric expression that such a place represents people valued or not
valued<BR>> simply on the basis of their physique, in the way that animals in
a real<BR>> meat market would be valued or not valued based on the quantity
or quality<BR>> of their meat.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Steve White, Jaars
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