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Do not keep a dog and bark yourself; Do not let the bastards grind you down; Do not let the grass grow beneath (one's) feet; Do not look a gift horse in the mouth; Do not make a mountain out of a mole hill; Do not meet troubles half-way; Do not put all your eggs in one basket; Do not put the cart before the horse
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Give a dog a bad name and hang him is an English proverb. Its meaning is that if a person's reputation has been besmirched, then he will suffer difficulty and hardship. A similar proverb is he that has an ill name is half hanged. The proverb dates back to the 18th century or before.
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Image credits: alpha.paw Even if you think that certain dog breeds are ugly, like the Chinese crested dog or English bull terrier, which can be found in this top 10 list of “ugliest” dogs, you ...
Elijah tackles the topic about a very common mistake people make when they are telling their dogs what not to do. He starts by explaining what it is that we do that is wrong, why the dog reacts ...
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; The proverb is a favourite of the British politician Ken Livingstone who used it on the occasion of his failure to rejoin the Labour Party in 2002. [ 8 ]
An idiom dictionary may be a traditional book or expressed in another medium such as a database within software for machine translation.Examples of the genre include Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which explains traditional allusions and proverbs, and Fowler's Modern English Usage, which was conceived as an idiom dictionary following the completion of the Concise Oxford English ...