Pigging out, piggy, piggyback, porcine pickle, far out, piggy bank, circulate,

As Hong Kong prepares to celebrate the Year of the Pig, the city is facing its own peculiar porcine pickle -- a debate about what to do with its growing and emboldened wild boar population.

Ahead of Lunar New Year, Chinese advised to stop pigging out to help save the planet

As Chinese people celebrate the new Year of the Pig this week, environmental campaigners are urging them to eat less pork and help save the planet. China consumes more meat than any other country and accounts for half the world's consumption of pork, which is ...



Canada used to be active in supporting the UN, fighting apartheid and lobbying for environmental causes. Now, it piggy-backs on the foreign-policy achievements of others http://econ.st/1NkdWhg

Strong, proud and free-riding

WHEN heart-rending images flashed across the world of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old from Syria who drowned off the Turkish coast, people everywhere were appalled. But...

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China has around a fifth of the world's people, but eats about half of its pork ‪#‎econarchive‬ (2013) http://econ.st/1uC3f3p
Pigging out
This year the world will eat 112m tonnes of pork. Around half will be munched in Chinese mouths, according to the Agricultural Outlook report from the FAO...
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Chinese Pork Producer Rekindles Hopes For I.P.O.

By NEIL GOUGH July 23, 2014


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萬洲國際下調定價重啟香港IPO
NEIL GOUGH 2014年07月23日

HONG KONG — This little piggy is going to the market after all.

香港——小豬最後還是要跑進市場的。

"This Little Piggy" or "This little pig" is an English language nursery rhyme andfingerplay.

New Strain of Norovirus Is Circulating in the U.S.


Piggybacking off this year's influenza epidemic, a new strain of the highly contagious norovirus has reached the U.S. from Australia.


U.K. Raids the QE Piggy Bank

BY RICHARD BARLEY The U.K. Chancellor has found a convenient way to lay his hands on £35 billion ($55.94 billion)—a not insignificant 2.3% of GDP. Instead of allowing interest on the £375 billion of U.K. government bonds held by the Bank of England to accumulate in an off-balance sheet account, the cash will be transferred back to the Treasury, as it is in the U.S. and Japan. That should make George Osborne's budget maths easier. But ...


As the proprietor of a small company, Ms. Tarantola was eager to piggyback on the Disney name. “Anyone who is alive today has been touched by Disney in some way. If becoming partners with them can help my business, far out.”

Starbucks VIA(R) Ready Brew Global Expansion Begins with U.K. and Japan
MarketWatch (press release)
Also this week, Starbucks Coffee Japan met with media, shareholders and partners (employees) to reveal that Starbucks VIA(R) Ready Brew will be available in ...

porcine

Dictionary result for porcine

/ˈpɔːsʌɪn/

adjective

1. of, affecting, or resembling a pig or pigs.

   
   

   "his flushed, porcine features"

pickle

Dictionary result for pickle

/ˈpɪk(ə)l/

noun

1. 1.

   a relish consisting of vegetables or fruit preserved in vinegar or brine.

   
   

   "cheese and pickle"

   
   

   synonyms:

   relish, chutney, chow chow, piccalilli, sauerkraut; More
2. 2.

   INFORMAL

   a difficult situation.

   
   

   "I am in a pickle"

   
   

   synonyms:

   plight, predicament, mess, difficulty, trouble, crisis, dire/desperate straits, ticklish/tricky situation, problem, quandary, dilemma; More

3. 
   

verb

1. 1.

   preserve (food or other perishable items) in vinegar or brine.

   
   

   "fish pickled in brine"

   
   

   synonyms:

   preserve, souse, marinate, conserve; More

2. 2.

   immerse (a metal object) in an acid or other chemical solution for cleaning.

   
   

   "the steel sheet is first pickled in acid to remove all oxides"

far out
1. Unusual or eccentric; very advanced. for example, Painting blindfolded, that's far out, or Her child-rearing theories are far out.
2. An interjection meaning "great" or "cool," as in All he could say when he won the lottery was "Far out!" Originally a slang term for daringly creative jazz, this expression has been applied to other art forms and undertakings. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]
(fär'out')
adj. Slang
Extremely unconventional: "all kinds of far-out and unique inventions" (Peter Nissenson).
adjective

• unconventional or avant-garde:a far-out psychic technique /
  far-out politics
• [often as exclamation] informal excellent:it’s really far out!

far-out

[形]

1 遠方の.

2 自由奔放な；前衛的な, 奇抜な, 斬(ざん)新な, いかす.

3 ((古風))きわめてよい.

píggy bànk[píggy bànk]

((略式))（しばしば豚形の）小型貯金箱.

pig-out

Dictionary result for pig-out

noun

INFORMAL

1. a bout of eating a large amount of food.

   
   

   "a junk food pig-out"

piggy

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Pronunciation: /ˈpɪgi /

NOUN (plural piggies)

A child’s word for a pig or piglet.

ADJECTIVE

Resembling a pig, especially in features or appetite:three pairs of little piggy eyes

phrases

piggy (also pig) in the middle

chiefly British A game in which two people attempt to throw a ball to each other without a third person in the middle catching it.

A person who is placed in an awkward situation between two others:I don’t want to be piggy in the middle between Guido and Silvia

piggyback (ride) noun [C]
a ride on someone's back with your arms round their neck and your legs round their waist:
I gave her a piggyback ride.

piggyback 
adverb
on someone's back, or on the back of something:
Martha rode piggyback on her dad.
Dom carried his daughter piggyback when she got too tired to walk.

piggyback
verb [I]
to use something that someone else has made or done in order to get an advantage:
Everyone wants to piggyback on the phenomenal success of the X Files.


pig

VERB (pigs, pigging, pigged)

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1informal Gorge oneself with food:lovesick people pig out on chocolate

2 informal Crowd together with other people in disorderly or dirty conditions:

he didn’t approve of the proposal to pig it in the studio

3(Of a sow) give birth to piglets; farrow.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

4Operate a pig within an oil or gas pipeline:(as noun pigging) they will carry out all trenchingand pigging

Origin

Middle English: probably from the first element of Old English picbrēd 'acorn', literally 'pig bread' (i.e. food for pigs).