meat market

black market

Trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls.

bring one's own hide to market

To create one's own fate, as a result of one's chosen character and actions; to experience the appropriate consequences of one's behavior.

chew the meat and spit out the bones

To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.

corner the market

To monopolize a resource or commodity, as with the intent of driving up prices.

dead meat

Someone in danger of being killed or severely punished.

drug on the market

something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand.

meat on one's bones

An amount of flesh on one's body that prevents one from being very thin.

meat on the bones

A substantial addition to or augmentation of the content of something, especially something which is unfinished or incomplete.