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dog's life
Idioms and Phrases
A miserably unhappy existence, as in He's been leading a dog's life since his wife left him . This expression was first recorded in a 16th-century manuscript and alludes to the miserable subservient existence of dogs during this era. By the 1660s there was a proverb: “It's a dog's life, hunger and ease.”Example Sentences
The animal-adoption people told him they were unaware of the events in the dog’s life that would have led to this.
The people with the rescue group told him they were unaware of the events in the dog’s life that would have led to this.
“That’s what I’d want, is that they’d really value their dog’s life and give their dog its best chance of having a full, long life.”
Playing fetch is part and parcel of a dog's life - but now scientists have found many cats enjoy it just as much.
Spending time with a dog is one of the most consistently effective ways to improve a dog's life in the shelter.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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