"drug on the market" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drugs on the market",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "drugs on the market"
      },
      "expansion": "drug on the market (plural drugs on the market)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1880, J.C. Hutcheson, Fritz and Eric",
          "text": "for days and days he patrolled the town in vain; seeking for work, and finding none. The place, as his candid informer had said, was filled with clerks like himself in search of employment; and they, linguists especially, were a drug in the market — the cessation of the Franco-German War having flooded the country with foreign labour.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Harry Collingwood, The Wreck of the Andromeda",
          "text": "...the bread fruit, roasted in the ashes of the fire, and the custard apples, with tea, furnished forth such a luxurious feast that all fears of possible starvation vanished, while the humble cocoanut at once became a drug on the market, useful enough perhaps as a thirst-quencher but otherwise of little value.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand."
      ],
      "id": "en-drug_on_the_market-en-noun-3NrpZSju",
      "links": [
        [
          "overabundant",
          "overabundant"
        ],
        [
          "demand",
          "demand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drug in the market"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-drug on the market.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/En-au-drug_on_the_market.ogg/En-au-drug_on_the_market.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/En-au-drug_on_the_market.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drug on the market"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drugs on the market",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "drugs on the market"
      },
      "expansion": "drug on the market (plural drugs on the market)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1880, J.C. Hutcheson, Fritz and Eric",
          "text": "for days and days he patrolled the town in vain; seeking for work, and finding none. The place, as his candid informer had said, was filled with clerks like himself in search of employment; and they, linguists especially, were a drug in the market — the cessation of the Franco-German War having flooded the country with foreign labour.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Harry Collingwood, The Wreck of the Andromeda",
          "text": "...the bread fruit, roasted in the ashes of the fire, and the custard apples, with tea, furnished forth such a luxurious feast that all fears of possible starvation vanished, while the humble cocoanut at once became a drug on the market, useful enough perhaps as a thirst-quencher but otherwise of little value.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overabundant",
          "overabundant"
        ],
        [
          "demand",
          "demand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-drug on the market.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/En-au-drug_on_the_market.ogg/En-au-drug_on_the_market.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/En-au-drug_on_the_market.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "drug in the market"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drug on the market"
}