"spoil the market" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spoils the market",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoiling the market",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoiled the market",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoiled the market",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "spoil the market (third-person singular simple present spoils the market, present participle spoiling the market, simple past and past participle spoiled the market)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Singapore English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Singlish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 September 22, Lydia Lim, Keith Lin, Ken Kwek, quoting Alvin Tan, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited",
          "text": "Instead of working with each other, they bicker and say things like, if you do that, you’ll spoil the market.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set higher standards by overachieving, so others look inferior or unmotivated in comparison."
      ],
      "id": "en-spoil_the_market-en-verb-8ElHCaLi",
      "links": [
        [
          "standard",
          "standard"
        ],
        [
          "overachieving",
          "overachieve"
        ],
        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "unmotivated",
          "unmotivated"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Singapore, informal, idiomatic) To set higher standards by overachieving, so others look inferior or unmotivated in comparison."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "spoil market"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Singapore",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spoil the market"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spoils the market",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoiling the market",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoiled the market",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoiled the market",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "spoil the market (third-person singular simple present spoils the market, present participle spoiling the market, simple past and past participle spoiled the market)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Singapore English",
        "Singlish"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 September 22, Lydia Lim, Keith Lin, Ken Kwek, quoting Alvin Tan, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited",
          "text": "Instead of working with each other, they bicker and say things like, if you do that, you’ll spoil the market.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set higher standards by overachieving, so others look inferior or unmotivated in comparison."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "standard",
          "standard"
        ],
        [
          "overachieving",
          "overachieve"
        ],
        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "unmotivated",
          "unmotivated"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Singapore, informal, idiomatic) To set higher standards by overachieving, so others look inferior or unmotivated in comparison."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Singapore",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spoil market"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spoil the market"
}