spoil the market

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Meaning: (Singapore,informal,idiomatic)To set higherstandardsbyoverachieving, so others lookinferiororunmotivatedin comparison.2006September 22, Lydia Lim, Keith Lin, Ken Kwek, quoting Alvin Tan,The Straits Times, quoted inJack Tsen-Ta Lee,A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited:Instead of working with each other, they bicker and say things like, if you do that, you’llspoil the market.

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