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DOG does not eat dog
Cf. VARRO
De Lingua Latina
VII. 32
canis caninam non est
, a dog does not eat dog's flesh.
1543
Hunting of Romish Fox
A2
V
The prouerb .. on dog will not eat of an other dogges fleshe.
1602
Troilus & Cressida
V. vii. 19
One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?
1790
Epistle to Bruce
31
Dog should not prey on dog, the proverb says: Allow then brother-trav'lers crumbs of praise.
1866
Hereward the Wake
II. xi.
Dog does not eat dog and it is hard to be robbed by an Englishman, after being robbed a dozen times by the French.
1933
Empty House
viii.
Dog doesn't eat dog, my dear fellow. To put it more politely, the physician attends his brother practitioner without charge.
1979
Guardian
26 May 8
Mr Donnet's assault on Mr Fisher breaks an honoured union tradition in which dog is not expected to eat dog.
reciprocity
De Lingua Latina
VII. 32
canis caninam non est
, a dog does not eat dog's flesh.
1543Hunting of Romish Fox
A2
V
The prouerb .. on dog will not eat of an other dogges fleshe.
1602
Troilus & Cressida
V. vii. 19
One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?
1790
Epistle to Bruce
31
Dog should not prey on dog, the proverb says: Allow then brother-trav'lers crumbs of praise.
1866
Hereward the Wake
II. xi.
Dog does not eat dog and it is hard to be robbed by an Englishman, after being robbed a dozen times by the French.
1933
Empty House
viii.
Dog doesn't eat dog, my dear fellow. To put it more politely, the physician attends his brother practitioner without charge.
1979
Guardian
26 May 8
Mr Donnet's assault on Mr Fisher breaks an honoured union tradition in which dog is not expected to eat dog.
reciprocity
Every DOG has his day
1545tr.
Erasmus' Adages
(ed. 2) 63
A dogge hath a day.
1600
–
1
Hamlet
V. i. 286
Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
1611
Dict. French & English
s.v. Fevrier,
Euerie dog hath his day.
1726
Odyssey
V. xxii.
Dogs, ye have had your day; ye fear'd no more Ulysses vengeful from the Trojan shore.
1837
French Revolution
III. I. i.
How changed for Marat, lifted from his dark cellar!.. All dogs have their day; even rabid dogs.
1863
Water Babies
ii.
Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.
1978
Were He Stranger
x.
‘She could be his sister.’ ‘No way—not with a face like that.’ ‘Well, every dog deserves his day.’
opportunity, taken;
success
Every DOG is allowed one bite
The proverb is based on the common law rule (dating at least from the seventeenth century) by which the keeper of a domestic animal was not liable for harm done by it unless he knew of its vicious propensities. The first time a dog bit someone might not be evidence that it was dangerous.
1902
Collectanea
I. 439
Every dog is allowed his first bite i.e. is not punished.
1913
Spectator
15 Mar. 440
Every dog is allowed by the law one free bite. After the dog has once bitten a person it is presumed that its owner knows it to be ‘savage.’
1968
Politics of Harold Wilson
x.
In March 1967 .. Wilson rounded on the Left at a Parliamentary Party meeting, warning them that ‘a dog is only allowed one bite’ and threatening them with a General Election unless they came to heel.
1980
Consequence of Crime
(1981) ii.
She got arrested … They say every dog [is] allowed one bite … But it was a vice thing … I told her to get out.
reputation
1902Collectanea
I. 439
Every dog is allowed his first bite i.e. is not punished.
1913
Spectator
15 Mar. 440
Every dog is allowed by the law one free bite. After the dog has once bitten a person it is presumed that its owner knows it to be ‘savage.’
1968
Politics of Harold Wilson
x.
In March 1967 .. Wilson rounded on the Left at a Parliamentary Party meeting, warning them that ‘a dog is only allowed one bite’ and threatening them with a General Election unless they came to heel.
1980
Consequence of Crime
(1981) ii.
She got arrested … They say every dog [is] allowed one bite … But it was a vice thing … I told her to get out.
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