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Originally Posted by Joefour
"Dog-in-a-manger"??
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Dog in the manger
Meaning
Spiteful and mean-spirited.
Origin
The infamous 'dog in a manger', who occupied the manger not because he wanted to eat the hay there but to prevent the other animals from doing so, is generally said to have been the invention of the Greek storyteller Aesop (circa 620-564 BC).
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