頂爛市
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English
- cut-throat competition (spoken)
- to drive down the market; to ruin the market by undercutting everyone else's price; to spoil everyone's business by offering very low prices
粵語 — Cantonese
- 利用極低價錢招徠客人,破壞行業生態;同類嘅商品服務,可能被迫跟住減價,令同行蒙受損失。
Examples
《東陽報》啱啱推出嗰陣,用割喉戰頂爛市,只係賣兩蚊,搞到其他對手要陪佢減價,甚至要送利是。
"Oriental Sun Post" made cut-throat price competition by selling at $2 only when it started publication, forced its competitor to follow, and even gave red pockets.
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk