Breed Phrases

Phrases

• A barking dog never bites
• A dog is a man's best friend
• A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
• As crooked as a dog's hind leg
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• As fit as a butcher's dog
• As happy as a dog with two tails
• As sick as a dog
• Be fruitful and multiply
• Best of breed
• Big Dog (Nickname of basketball player Glenn Robinson)
• Bird dog
• Black dog
• Born and bred
• Breed apart
• Breed like flies
• Breed like rabbits
• Breeder's choice
• Buckle under the strain
• Bulldog breed
• Caught like a rabbit in the headlights
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Doesn't your dog deserve ALPO? (Alpo Dog Food advertising slogan)
• Dog Latin
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Dog and pony show
• Dog bites man
• Dog days
• Dog does not eat dog
• Dog eat dog
• Dog in the manger
• Dog tired
• Dog whistle politics (Political messages intended for a specific knowledgable audience)
• Dog your steps
• Dog's age
• Dog's bollocks
• Dog's breakfast
• Dog's dinner
• Dog's life
• Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Don't treat your puppy like a dog (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• Dying breed
• Every dog has his day
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Familiarity breeds contempt
• Feed a dog its own tail
• Fight like cat and dog
• Furry crocodile (military slang term for a guard dog)
• Gay dog
• Give a dog a bad name
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• Go to see a man about a dog
• Grow a pair
• Grow a tail
• Grow on you
• Grow up
• Hair of the dog
• Hair of the dog that bit you
• Hot diggety dog
• Hound Dog (Elvis Presley song)
• How does your garden grow?
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)

• In stock
• It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
• Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)
• Junk Yard Dog (Nickname of Jerome Williams)
• Laughing stock
• Lead a dog's life
• Let the dog see the rabbit
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Like a dog with two dicks
• Like a dog with two tails
• Lock stock and barrel
• Love me: love my dog
• Lucky dog
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Gene Hatcher)
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Greg Maddux)
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Mark Madsen)
• Man bites dog
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Meaner than a junkyard dog
• Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
• Money doesn't grow on trees
• Never kick a dog when he's down
• Not fit for a dog
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• One Dog (Nickname of Lance Johnson)
• One man and his dog
• Out of stock
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Pull the rabbit out of the hat
• Put on the dog
• Rabbit and pork (Cockney rhyming slang for talk)
• Rabbit food
• Roses grow on you (Cadbury's Roses advertising slogan)
• Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run
• Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids (Trix chocolate advertising slogan)
• Sly dog
• Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Stock in trade
• Strain every nerve
• Strong, silent type
• Success breeds success
• Take stock
• That dog won't hunt
• The Hit Dog (Nickname of Mo Vaughn)
• The dog ate my homework
• The little dog laughed to see such fun
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• The rabbit died
• The tail wagging the dog
• The world puts its stock in us (NYSE advertising slogan)
• There's life in the old dog yet
• This Happy Breed (David Lean movie)
• Three dog night
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Top dog
• Try it on the dog
• Until the last dog is hung
• Work like a dog
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• Yellow dog Democrat
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks