Idiom
buy straw hats in winter
Meaning
Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price are low, so as to sell when demand and price are high.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Smart investors buy straw hats in winter.”
“He always buys straw hats in winter, then sells them for double the price in summer.”
“While others panicked and sold, she quietly bought straw hats in winter, trusting that patience would reward her when the market inevitably turned.”
Examples
simple
“Smart investors buy straw hats in winter.”
contextual
“He always buys straw hats in winter, then sells them for double the price in summer.”
complex
“While others panicked and sold, she quietly bought straw hats in winter, trusting that patience would reward her when the market inevitably turned.”
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