"Tear up the pea patch" nghĩa là gì?

This messenger was Walter Lanier Barber, universally known as "Red" and revered as one of the best baseball broadcasters ever. Calling Dodgers games in the 1940s, he was known for folksy (bình dân, dễ chan hòa) Southern phrases like "tearing up the pea patch."

Keep in mind that Energy wasn’t exactly tearing up the pea patch even in 2019, before COVID-19 came along. So we’re talking about a sector that, for lack of better words, can be called bruised and battered.

Combined, these four have a market capitalization (vốn hóa thị trường) of around $600 billion, which is nothing to sniff at even if together it only amounts to slightly less than one-third of Apple’s (AAPL) value. Yet, unlike AAPL, these companies aren’t exactly tearing up the pea patch this year. INTC is down 25% year to date, hurt recently by a delay in one of its major products. ORCL is up about 2% this year as its cloud and software businesses face tough competition. CSCO is roughly flat, with analysts saying its business has been vulnerable to the global economic downturn (sự suy thoái kinh tế toàn cầu). That also seems true for HP, the smallest of the four, where shares are down 13% year to date.