dog in the manger
Someone who prevents others from having something they themselves do not want.
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dog latin
Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used by the lawyers in their pleadings.
dog my cats
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dog stealer
A DOG DEALER. There is sometimes less difference between the two trades than between "d" and "st."
dog that caught the car
Someone who achieves a goal, but doesn't know what to do next
dog vane
A cockade. SEA TERM.
dog who caught the tire
someone who achieved their goal but doesn't know what to do next
dog's breakfast
A complete mess or muddle
dog's chance
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dog's life
a life of hardship and misery
dog's portion
A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer or dangler after women. See DANGLER.
dog's rig
To copulate till you are tired, and then turn tail to it.
Dog-whipping Day
October 18th (St. Luke's Day). It is said that a dog once swallowed the consecrated wafer in York Minster on this day.
dogberry
A foolish constable.—Shakspeare.
dogged
very
doggery
Nonsense, transparent attempts to cheat.
Dogmatic School
See EMPIRICS. Doh, or Do (do). The first or tonic note of the solfeggio system of music.
dogs
Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
dogs
TO GO TO THE, to be commercially or socially ruined. Originally a stable term applied to old or worthless horses, sold to feed hounds.
dogs '-ears
The corners of pages crumpled and folded down.
dogs bark, cats meow
People often do what is typical of them
dogs howl at death
A widespread super- stition. In the rabbinical book it saith The dogs howl when, with icy breath, Great Sammael, the angel of death, Takes thro' the town his flight.
dogs in effigy
In funeral monuments a dog is often sculptured at the foot of the central effigy; this has no symbolical significance, it is usually a memento of the dead person's pet.
Dogs wags their tails, not as much to you as to your bread. (Strauss, 1994 p. 710)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
dog’s ears
The curled corners of the leaves of books, which have been carelessly treated. The use of this term is so common that it is hardly to be considered slang.
dog’s nose
Gin and beer, so called from the mixture being cold, like a dog’s nose.
doing time
Working out a sentence in prison. "He’s done time," is a slang phrase used in reference to a man who is known to have been in gaol.
doitsu
Germany.
doja
Marijuana.
doldrums
Difficulties, low spirits, dumps.—Sea.
dole out
give or share something, often reluctantly or in small amounts
doll
Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman, like one of the children's dolls at Bartholomew fair. To mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house of correction.
dollar-sign eyes
Being extremely greedy or materialistic
dollars and cents
Making financial sense or being practical
dollop
A lump or portion.—Norfolk. Anglo-Saxon, DALE, dole.
dolly
A Yorkshire dolly; a contrivance for washing, by means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tub, which being turned about, agitates and cleanses the linen put into it, with soap and water.
dolly
A very mild gambling contrivance, generally used in sweetmeat and other child’s-ware shops, until stopped by the authorities a few years back, and consisting of a round board and the figure of an old man or "DOLLY," down which was a spiral hole. A marble dropped "down the DOLLY," would stop in one of the small holes or pits (numbered) on the board. The bet was decided according as the marble stopped on a high or low figure. See DOLLY-SHOP.
Dolly Shop
A marine store where rags and refuse are bought and sold; so called from the black doll suspended over it as a sign to denote the sale of Indian silks and muslins.
dollymop
A tawdrily-dressed maid-servant, a semi-professional street-walker.
dome piece
Head.
Domesday Book
The book containing a record of the census or survey of England, giving the ownership, extent, value, etc.
Domiciliary Visit
An official visit paid by the police or other authorities to a private dwelling in order to search for in- criminating papers, etc. In Britain a magi- strate's warrant must be obtained before a domiciliary visit can be made.
domine do little
An impotent old fellow.
domineer
To reprove or command in an insolent or haughty manner. Don't think as how you shall domineer here.
Dominical Letters
The letters which denote the Sunday or dies dommica. The first seven letters of the alphabet are employed; if January 1st is a Sunday the dominical letter for the year will be A, if the 2nd is a Sunday it will be B, if the 3rd, C, and so on. In Leap years there are two dominical letters, one for the period up to February 29th, and the other for the rest of the year.
dominie
A parson, or master at a grammar school.
domino
A common ejaculation of soldiers and sailors when they receive the last lash of a flogging. The allusion may be understood from the game of dominoes. A DOMINO means either a blow, or the last of a series of things, whether pleasant or otherwise, so the ejaculation savours somewhat of wit.
dommerer
A beggar pretending that his tongue has been cutout by the Algerines, or cruel and blood-thirsty Turks, or else that he yas born deaf and dumb. Cant.
don
A clever fellow, the opposite of a muff; a person of distinction in his line or walk. At the English Universities, the Masters and Fellows are the DONS. DON is also used as an adjective, "a DON hand at a knife and fork," i.e., a first-rate feeder at a dinner-table.
Don Juan
Don Juan Tenorio, the hero of a large number of plays and poems, as well as of Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni, round whom numerous legends have collected, was the son of a leading family of Seville in the 14th century, and killed the commandant of Ulloa after seducing his daughter.
don pedro
A game at cards. It is a compound of All Fours, and the Irish game variously termed All Fives, Five and Ten, Fifteen, Forty-five, &c. It was probably invented by the mixed English and Irish rabble who fought in Portugal in 1832-3.
Don Quixote
The hero of the great romance of that name by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). It was published at Madrid, Part I in 1605, Part II in 1615.
don't
do not (negative auxiliary).
don't bark if you can't bite
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
don't bite off more than you can chew
Do not take on more responsibility than you can handle
don't burn the candle at both ends
To exhaust oneself by doing too many things at once
don't call me sir, I work for a living
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
don't call us, we'll call you
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
don't change horses in midstream
Avoid making major changes during a difficult situation
don't cross a bridge before you come to it
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.