Some of the alpha moms hold down outside jobs, but what they all have in common is ample money to spend on their offspring.
If your product or service gets the alpha mom high sign, it's like striking the mother lode of merchandising gold.
Whether they're aware of the status or not, they're functioning as product pluggers.
I think you've pegged her.
That has endeared them to market sharpshooters.
■意味を考えてみよう。答えは以下で
hold down an outside job get the high sign product plugger peg someone endear hands-on sharpshooter lode of roster movers and shakers
────────────────────────────── hold down an outside job, 外に出て働く ────────────────────────────── If you hold down a job or a place in a team, you manage to keep it.
ex) Constant injury problems had made it tough for him to hold down a regular first team place.
────────────────────────────── get the high sign, オーケーをもらう ────────────────────────────── E-DICより。
get the high sign (from someone)
「（～から）（前もって決めた）合図［挨拶，警告］を受ける」
I gotta go. I'm getting the high sign from Mom. もう行かなくちゃ。お母さんが合図してるから
If someone plugs a commercial product, especially a book or a film, they praise it in order to encourage people to buy it or see it because they have an interest in it doing well.
ex) We did not want people on the show who are purely interested in plugging a book or film.
────────────────────────────── peg someone, （人の正体）を見破る、（人）を見定める ────────────────────────────── [ODE] form a fixed opinion of; categorize
ex) the officer probably has us pegged as anarchists
テントを固定する器具のことをペグといいますね。
フレーズ辞典より。
peg 〔動〕〔口語〕判断する, 目星［見当］をつける
Doris is pegged for a big promotion next spring. ドリスは来春大きく昇進すると目されている．
────────────────────────────── endear, いとしく思わせる ────────────────────────────── If something endears you to someone or if you endear yourself to them, you become popular with them and well liked by them.
ex) He has endeared himself to the American public.
────────────────────────────── その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現 ────────────────────────────── hands-on, 実際的に[な]、体験型に[の] sharpshooter, 名手、やり手 lode of, …の鉱脈[宝庫] roster, 登録簿、名簿 ★movers and shakers, 大きな影響力を持つ人物
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Mother of All Mothers (2) 12/19-20 2007"
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