why keep a dog and bark yourself
1why keep a dog and bark yourself? — ► why keep a dog and bark yourself? proverb why pay someone to work for you and then do the work yourself? Main Entry: ↑dog …
2why keep a dog and bark yourself? — There s no need to do something yourself when you have somebody to do it for you, usually trivial matters …
3why keep a dog and bark yourself? — 1583 B. MELBANCKE Philotimus 119 It is smal reason you should kepe a dog, and barke your selfe. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 81 What? keep a dog and bark my self. That is, must I keep servants, and do my work my self. 1738 SWIFT Polite… …
4why keep a dog and bark yourself — This expression means that if someone or something can do a task for you, there s no reason to do it yourself. My grandmother has an electric mixer but she continues to make her cakes by hand. Why keep a dog and bark yourself? …
5why keep a dog and bark yourself? — This expression means that if someone or something can do a task for you, there s no reason to do it yourself. My grandmother has an electric mixer but she continues to make her cakes by hand. Why keep a dog and bark yourself? …
6Why keep a dog and bark yourself? — British & Australian something that you say which means there is no purpose in doing something yourself when there is someone else who will do it for you. Just leave the glasses on the table the bar staff will collect them. After all, why keep a… …
7why keep a dog and bark yourself? — why keep a ˌdog and bark yourˈself? idiom (informal, saying) if sb can do a task for you, there is no point in doing it yourself Main entry: ↑dogidiom …
8dog — ► NOUN 1) a domesticated carnivorous mammal with a barking or howling voice and an acute sense of smell. 2) a wild animal resembling this, in particular any member of the dog family (Canidae), which includes the wolf, fox, coyote, jackal, and… …
9dog — see feed a dog for three days and he will remember your kindness for three years; feed a cat for three years and she will forget your kindness in three days give a dog a bad name and hang him dog does not eat dog every dog has his day every dog… …
10why buy a cow when milk is so cheap? — An argument for choosing the least troublesome alternative; frequently used as an argument against marriage. One of the few proverbs in the form of a rhetorical question; cf. why keep a dog and bark yourself? 1659 J. HOWELL Proverbs p. ii. It is… …
