Dog In The Manger Definition

dog-in-the-manger
noun
One who prevents others from enjoying what one has no use for oneself.
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Other Word Forms of Dog In The Manger

Noun

Singular:
dog in the manger
Plural:
dogs-in-mangers

Origin of Dog In The Manger

  • From a fable about a dog preventing other animals from eating the hay in a manger, even though as a carnivore he could not eat it himself.

    From Wiktionary

  • From a fable in which a dog prevented an ox from eating hay he did not want himself

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dog In The Manger Sentence Examples

  • Goethe's grandsons have been so repeatedly accused of having dis p layed a dog-in-the-manger temper in closing the Goethehaus to the public and the Goethe archives to research, that the charge has almost universally come to be regarded as proven.

  • Again Sella was called upon, but again the dog-in-the-manger policy of Depretis, Cairoli, Nicotera and Baccarini, in conjunction with the intolerant attitude of some extreme Conservatives, proved fatal to his endeavours.

  • Jerusalem, like Rome, had the shadow of a mighty name to lend prestige to its ruler; and as residence in Rome was one great reason of the strength of the medieval papacy, so was 1 Before he left, Raymund had played in Jerusalem the same part of dog in the manger which he had also played at Antioch, and had given Godfrey considerable trouble.

  • Heaven forbid anyone should see him as a sulky dog in the manger over pensions.

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