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Dogwood |
Cornus
Florida:
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dog in the manger |
Pessimist |
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A dog with two tails |
Someone who is very proud or very happy |
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A hair of the dog |
An alcoholic drink to cure a hang-over |
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A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be |
Punishment is often beneficial |
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All are not thieves that dogs bark at |
You can't tell a book by its cover |
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Barking dogs seldom bite |
People who act threateningly are seldom really dangerous |
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Be in the dog house |
Be out of favour |
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Better a living dog than dead lion |
Better a live coward than a dead hero |
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Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion |
Better an important wage slave than an unimportant boss |
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Dirty dog |
Mean bastard |
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Dog |
Unreliable bloke |
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Dog |
Rejected product |
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Dog |
Failure |
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Dog |
Clamp |
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Dog |
Ugly girl |
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Dog |
Hot dog, sausage roll |
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Dog biscuit |
Ugly girl |
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Dog biscuit |
Cracker |
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Dog collar |
Clerical collar |
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Dog collar |
Choker |
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Dog daisy |
Bellis
perennis:
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Dog daisy |
Chrysanthemum
leucanthemum:
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Dog days |
Hottest time of the year |
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Dog days |
Dull season in newspaper industry |
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Dog does not eat dog |
Important people always protect each other |
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Dog eats dog |
Struggle for survival |
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Dog fennel |
Anthemis
cotula:
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Dog fight |
Fight between dogs |
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Dog fight |
Fight between quarrelsome people |
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Dog fight |
Fight between
fighter planes, pilots on each other's tails: |
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Dog grass |
Agrostis
canina:
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Dog grass |
Agropyrum
repens:
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Dog grass |
Eleusine
indica:
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Dog hole |
Shabby house |
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Dog hole |
Rough, round entrance, usually to dark or underground space |
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Dog hole |
Harbour basin, inlet |
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Dog house |
Home for dogs or shabby home for humans |
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Dog house |
String bass |
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Dog Latin |
Mumbo jumbo |
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Dog rose |
Rosa canina:
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Dog squad |
Police department with working dogs |
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Dog Star |
One of the
stars of Sirius, Canis major |
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Dog Star |
Procyon: one of the stars of Canis minor |
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Dog tag |
Small metal token with ID data of dog, worn around neck |
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Dog tag |
Small metal token with ID data of dog, worn around neck |
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Dog tax |
Taxation payable for possessing a dog |
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Dogberry |
Cornus
sanguinea: |
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Dogberry |
Arctostaphylos
uva-ursi:
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Dogberry |
Ribes
cynosbati:
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Dog-biscuit |
Cookie for dogs |
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Dog-cart |
This vehicle
or any
that looks like it |
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Dogcatcher |
Official responsible for catching stray dogs |
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Dog-clutch |
Toothed clutch |
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Dog-ear |
Fold in page of a book |
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Dog-eat-dog |
Ruthlessly selfish |
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Dog-end |
Cigarette end |
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Dogfish |
Amia calva: |
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Dogfish |
Scyllium
canicula:
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Dog-fox |
Male fox |
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Dogged |
Persistent |
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Dogger |
Daylight boat |
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Doggery |
Rude, mean behaviour |
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Doggery |
Pack of hounds |
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Doggery |
Crowd of people |
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Doggery |
Mob |
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Doggie bag |
Bag to take left-overs home from restaurant |
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Doggie style |
Popular position for sex |
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Doggish |
Rude, impertinent |
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Doggish |
Chic, elegant |
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Doggo |
Very still and quiet |
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Doggone |
Euphemism for 'damn' |
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Doggy style |
Popular position for sex |
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Dogleg |
Sharp curve or angle |
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Dog-paddle |
Swim like a dog |
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Dog's age |
Eternity |
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Dog's breakfast |
Mess, rubbish |
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Dog's grass |
Agrostis
canina:
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Dog's grass |
Agropyrum
repens: |
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Dog's grass |
Eleusine
indica: |
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Dog's life |
Miserable existence |
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Dog's meat |
Meat scraps |
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Dog's nose |
Glass of beer together with a glass of gin or rum |
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Dogs of war |
Horrors of war |
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Dog's tail |
Cynosurus
cristatus: |
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Dog's tongue |
Cynoglossum
officinale:
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Dog's tooth |
Erythronium:
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Dog's tooth |
Specific four-pointed pattern
(fashion,
architecture): |
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Dogsbody |
Factotum, chief cook and bottle washer |
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Dogsbody |
Most junior officer (shipping) |
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Dog's-ear |
Fold in page of a book |
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Dogshore |
Pawl |
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Dogsleep |
Nap |
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Dogspike |
Hook bolt |
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Dog-tired |
Very tired, exhausted |
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Dogtooth |
Erythronium: |
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Dogtooth |
Specific four-pointed pattern
(fashion,
architecture): |
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Dogtrot |
Jog trot |
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Dog-violet |
Viola canina:
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Dogwatch |
Watch aboard ship from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. |
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Dog-wolf |
Male wolf |
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Dogwood |
Any variety of Genus Cornus: |
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Dressed up like a dog's dinner |
Dressed too smartly, conspicuously |
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Every dog has his day |
Everybody is in for a stroke of luck some day |
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Every dog is allowed his first bite |
We all need to be given a first chance |
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Gay dog |
Cheerful person |
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Give a dog a bad name and hang him |
A good name is sooner lost than won |
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I am just going to see a man about a dog |
I am going to the toilet |
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It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks |
When you are old it is difficult to learn new things |
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Let sleeping dogs lie |
Don't alert people unnecessarily |
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Love me, love my dog |
Take me as I am, including my faults |
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Lucky dog |
Person with a great deal of luck |
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Not a dog's chance |
No chance at all |
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Old dog |
Experienced person |
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Sausage dog |
Dachshund:
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Sea dog |
Experienced sailor |
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Seeing-eye dog |
Guide dog for the blind |
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Shaggy dog story |
Long joke with trivial end |
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Sick as a dog |
Vomiting a lot |
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Sly dog |
Sly person |
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Sniffer dog |
Dog trained to find drugs or bombs, etc. |
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There are more ways of killing a dog than hanging him |
There are more ways of achieving your goal than one |
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To die like a dog |
To die miserably |
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To dog |
To hunt, to haunt |
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To dog |
To tease |
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To dog it |
Not work very hard |
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To dog something |
To put something in a clamp |
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To fight like cat and dog |
To fight fiercely |
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To go to the dogs |
To go broke, to fail utterly |
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To put on the dog |
To act importantly |
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To throw something to the dogs |
Abandon a project |
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To try it on the dog |
To try something out on an unimportant test subject |
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To work like a dog |
To work very hard |
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Top dog |
Important person |
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Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it |
Two people fighting over something may lose it to someone else who bides his time |
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Why keep a dog and bark yourself? |
Why do the work yourself if there people who can do it for you? |
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Wiener dog |
Dachshund:
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