Mart Brothers
n.pl.— «I’ve got the “Mart Brothers” to contend with, with Wal-Mart up the street and K mart down the street.…I don’t compete with them. I stock the quality fishing gear they don’t carry, or won’t sell.» —“Live-Bait Shops Are Vanishing” by D’arcy Egan Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) Jan. 10, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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