Dogs & Cats dressed up like a Dogs dinner !
Over the Christmas I heard somebody say that such and such a person was dressed up like a dog’s dinner (that such and such a person obviously wasn’t me)
That same day when I went to feed our dogs their second meal of they day I thought how the hell could anybody look like what I was putting down for our dogs to feast on.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) it means; used of someone or something dressed or arranged in an ostentatiously smart or flashy manner,
Other people, apart from the bright people at the OED, see it meaning that things were a mess or muddle, and some that a dog’s dinner originally may have referred to a cooking mishap with results fit only for a dog’s consumption. If you take this to be the meaning behind this saying, and not surprisingly for the time when it was coined, dogs were not looked upon as pets, but having a function / purpose, and nutrition as well as many other things weren’t taken into consideration.
Can we say for a lot of dogs kept in Ireland and the UK that much has changed ?
Must dash, as dogs need walking, and it looks like it’s going to rain cats and dogs any minute soon….(rain cats and dogs – What the hell does that mean ?)
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