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by kordless 4039 days ago
I may be completely off about this, but isn't it the term suppose to be "going concern"? I thought I had discovered a phrase I didn't know, but then I did a Google search and the only occurance is this article.

That said, if China's market goes under it may be pretty gory. :)

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It's a pun, playing on the well known phrase "going concern". It's a bull market, and people are going to get gored when it stops (which of course is something bad a bull can do to people), which is a concern. A "going concern" is some kind of viable enterprise, so by casting it as a "goring concern" they're alluding to the fact that the stock bubble does not look like a viable enterprise, as well as getting in a reference to bull markets and giving their prognosis. Puntastic.
Play on words... Extremely "bullish" market, lofty valuations, irrational exuberance, people are going to end up gored when some of these companies (300431, 283.HK, 566.HK etc) end up in dirt and no longer qualify as "going concerns".
While we're on the subject, when you say "isn't the term suppose to be", you actually need to say "isn't the term supposed to be". I've noticed that people have started pronouncing this wrong (they now say "suppoes" rather than "suppozed") and that's spread into the written form.

Similarly, people are also replacing the correct "used to" with "use to".

"Use to" can be correct, e.g. "Didn't we use to go to the same school?" The tense of "use" should match the tense of the predicate.
I assumed it was "a growing concern". But I can't ding the submitter for copying verbatim from the article title.