bring one's own hide to market

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. 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. US,idiomatic,often
    — "[T]hou art a living passenger upon this earth, and must look out for thyself. Help yourself! Nobody forwards thee to thy destination; and we Germans have a proverb that comes near it in meaning: 'Each one must carry his own hide to market.'"

词形变化

brings one's own hide to market present,singular,third-person bringing one's own hide to market participle,present brought one's own hide to market participle,past brought one's own hide to market past carry one's own hide to market alternative take one's own hide to market alternative

词源

Probably from a German proverb, notably adapted by Karl Marx to describe the exploited worker who must sell himself (his own hide) in the labor market; the denotative metaphoric analogy is to bringing animal hides to market, but simultaneously also the self-evident connotative overtones are of chattel slavery and prostitution, in which human corporeality is exploited and personhood is devalued; in the quote below, the word hiding lends both its literal and figurative senses to the parsing: both literal skinning (of an animal) and also flogging and fleecing (of a person, that is, beating and robbing):
: 1867, Karl Marx, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, Capital, vol. 1 ch. 6:
:: [T]he possessor of labour-power follows […] , timid and holding back, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but — a hiding.
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