To go the whole hog. See Whole Animal.
To bring one’s hogs (or pigs) to a fine market, verb. phr. (old).—To do well; to make a good deal (q.v.). Also, in sarcasm, the opposite.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew., s.v. He has brought his hoggs to a fair market, or he has Spun a fair Thread.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hog.… He has brought his hogs to a fine market, a saying of one who has been remarkably successful in his affairs, and is spoken ironically to signify the contrary.
To drive one’s hogs (or pigs) to market, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To snore.
1738. Swift, Polite Conversations, ii., 455. I’gad he fell asleep, and snored so loud that we thought he was driving his hogs to market.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hog.… to drive one’s hogs, to snore, the noise made by some persons in snoring being not much unlike the notes of that animal.
Hog-age, subs. (American).—The period between boyhood and manhood. Cf., Hobbledehoy.
Hogan-mogan, subs. (old).—See quot.
1892. Aitken, Satires of Andrew Marvell, p. 128. The States General of the United provinces were officially addressed as High and Mighty Lords, or in Dutch, Hoogmogenden; hence English satirists called them hogans-mogans, and applied the phrase to Dutchmen in general. Cf., Hoganmoganides, or the Dutch Hudibras (1694), and ‘A New Song on the hogan-mogans’ in ‘A Collection of the Newest Poems … against Popery, etc.’ (1689).