corner the something market

corner the something market
corner the market on something & corner the something market
Fig. to develop or obtain a monopoly of something. •

The company sought to corner the market on frozen yogurt.

Standard Oil had the oil market cornered at the end of the nineteenth century.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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