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New page: A '''''Dog in the manger''''' is an idiomatic expression that is meant to describe a person who spitefully refuses to let someone else benefit from something for which ...
A '''''Dog in the manger''''' is an [[idiom|idiomatic]] expression that is meant to describe a person who [[spite|spitefully]] refuses to let someone else benefit from something for which they have no use. "We asked our neighbor for the fence posts he had left over, but, like a '''dog in the manger''', he threw them out rather than give them to us."
The phrase comes from one of [[Aesop]]'s fables about a dog lying in a [[manger]] full of hay. When an ox tries to eat some hay, the dog bites him, despite the fact that the hay is of no use to the dog.
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The phrase comes from one of [[Aesop]]'s fables about a dog lying in a [[manger]] full of hay. When an ox tries to eat some hay, the dog bites him, despite the fact that the hay is of no use to the dog.
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