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📖 Определения и значения для слова dog

📒 an animal with four legs and a tail, often kept as a pet or trained for work, for example hunting or guarding buildings. There are many types of dog, some of which are wild.

  • I took the dog for a walk.
  • I'm just going to walk the dog.
  • I could hear a dog barking.

📒 a male dog, fox, wolf or otter

📒 greyhound racing

📒 a thing of low quality; a failure

  • Her last movie was an absolute dog.

📒 an offensive way of describing a woman who is not considered attractive

📒 used, especially after an adjective, to describe a man who has done something bad

  • You dirty dog!

📒 to be raining heavily

📒 an event that is planned only in order to impress people so that they will support or buy something

  • the dog and pony show of his visits to the war zone
  • a dog and pony show to sell the idea to investors

📒 a situation in business, politics, etc. where there is a lot of competition and people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed

  • I'm afraid in this line of work it's a case of dog eat dog.
  • We're operating in a dog-eat-dog world.

📒 a person who stops other people from enjoying something that the person cannot use or does not want themselves

📒 a thing that has been done badly

  • He's made a real dog's breakfast of these accounts.

📒 an unhappy life, full of problems or unfair treatment

  • He led his poor partner a dog's life.

📒 everyone has good luck or success at some point in their life

📒 when a person already has a bad reputation, it is difficult to change it because others will continue to blame or suspect them

📒 to get into a very bad state

  • This firm's gone to the dogs since the new management took over.

📒 alcohol that you drink in order to make you feel better when you have drunk too much alcohol the night before

📒 to be involved in a situation so that you will gain or lose according to the result

  • I really don't have a dog in this fight, so I can just enjoy the game.
  • The employees have a dog in the hunt, so their views should be listened to.

📒 to avoid mentioning a subject or something that happened in the past, in order to avoid any problems or arguments

📒 extremely hard

  • I've been working like a dog recently.

📒 in a very bad or cruel way

  • They treated him like a dog.

📒 very determined and refusing to give up

  • When she sensed a good story she was like a dog with a bone.

📒 to have no chance at all

  • He hasn't a dog's chance of passing the exam.

📒 feeling very sick; vomiting a lot

📒 used to describe a situation in which the most important aspect is being influenced and controlled by somebody/something that is not as important

📒 (you cannot) successfully make people change their ideas, methods of work, etc., when they have had them for a long time

📒 to allow somebody to suffer or be punished in an unfair way, as if they have no value

  • Her boss collects a big retirement cheque while she is thrown to the dogs.

📒 if somebody can do a task for you, there is no point in doing it yourself

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