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Brewer's: Dog-cheap
A perversion of the old English god-chepe (a good bargain). French, bon marché (good-cheap or bargain). “The sack ... would have bought me lights as good-cheap at the dearest chandler's in…Brewer's: Dog-days
Days of great heat. The Romans called the six or eight hottest weeks of the summer caniculares dies. According to their theory, the dog-star or Sirius, rising with the sun, added to its…Brewer's: Dog and Duck
A public-house sign, to announce that ducks were hunted by dogs within. The sport was to see the duck dive, and the dog after it. At Lambeth there was a famous pleasure-resort so called,…Brewer's: Dog-fall
(in wrestling), when both wrestlers fall together. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dog-grassDog-days A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…Brewer's: Dog-grass
(triticum repens). Grass eaten by dogs when they have lost their appetite; it acts as an emetic and purgative. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dog-headDog-…Brewer's: Dog-head
(in machinery). That which bites or holds the gun-flint. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dog-headed TribesDog-grass A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…Brewer's: Dog-Latin
Pretended or mongrel Latin. An excellent example is Stevens' definition of a kitchen: As the law classically expresses it, a kitchen is “camera necessaria pro usus cookare; cum saucepannis…Brewer's: Dog-leech
(A). A dog—doctor. Formerly applied to a medical practitioner; it expresses great contempt. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dog-roseDog-Latin A B C D E…Brewer's: Dog-rose
Botanical name, Cynorrhodos—i.e. Greek Kuno-rodon, dog-rose; so called because it was supposed to cure the bite of a mad dog (Rosa Canina, wild brier). “A morsu vero [i.e. of a mad dog]…Brewer's: Dog-sick
Sick as a dog. We also say “Sick as a cat.” The Bible speaks of dogs “returning to their vomit again” (Prov. xxvi. 11; 2 Pet. ii. 22). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Trending
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