a dog in the manger betydelse and definition

Exempel på a dog in the manger

• A dog in the manger is what you should be called. 

• But as nothing also will induce me to live there, I am not such a dog in the manger as to wish to keep it. 

• But why should his friend be a dog in the manger? 

• I am not a dog in the manger. 

• She felt that she would be a dog in the manger to keep the place in her own possession.