Every dog has its day

Posted by ESC on March 07, 2005

In Reply to: Every dog has its day posted by angela on March 07, 2005

: : What is the meaning behind the meaning? In other words what does the meaning mean?

Some days you're the top dog. Some days you're the underdog.

From the archives:

A variation:

SUN DON'T SHINE, THE - "The sun don't shine on the same dog's a** every day, but your butt ain't seen a ray of sunshine in weeks." From the movie "Hoosiers" .

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY - "According to the medieval Dutch scholar Erasmus, the saying came about as a result of the death of the Greek playwright Euripides, who in 405 B.C. was mauled and killed by a pack of dogs loosed upon him by a rival. Thus the saying is usually taken to mean that even the most lowly person will at some time get revenge on his oppressor, no matter how powerful the man may be. The Greek biographer Plutarch recorded the proverb for the first time in 'Moralia' (A.D. c. 95) rendering it as 'Even a dog gets his revenge,' and Richard Taverner included the first version in English - 'A dogge hath a day' - centuries later in his 'Proverbes' or Adages' .What was virtually the modern form appeared in John Ray's 'A collection of English Proverbs' as 'Every dog hath his day'." From Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New; by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993).

And another related phrase: The sun is going to shine in my backdoor some day.
Trouble in Mind
1927) Richard Jones

Trouble in mind, I'm blue
But I won't be blue always,
'Cause the sun's gonna shine
In my backdoor some day.