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Bbk_agp Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

"hit the market" & "beat the market" ... what they mean?

hi every one

Please, can you help me with this idioms...!

"hit the market" & "beat the market" ...

Are they correct? is there such idiom in English?

Do you know what's difference?
  

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Can you show them how they were used in a sentence, please? They are set idioms in my experience.

— BarbaraPA

  • Can you show them how they were used in a sentence, please?
  • They are set idioms in my experience.
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Can you show them how they were used in a sentence, please? They are set idioms in my experience.
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Hi,

thanks, you answered so fast, I surprised...!!!!

It was in our exam, I just remember some senteces like these:

" when microsoft released Windows at first time, it <hit / beat the market>..."

the question was: which one is correct: hit or beat

Thanks Very Much
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Here is an Example of the idiom in sentences:

Just after the PC hit the market (August 1981), a project named "Interface Manager" started. It was renamed to "Windows" because the programmers talked very much about the zones called "windows" on the screen. Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Wind
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Ah, okay.

When a product is released into the marketplace/first available for sale, you can say it has "hit the market."

If you want to talk about how a product has performed better than others in the same industry, you ocan probably find a way to use "beat the market" or "leading the market."
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Thank you so much[F][H][L][L]

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