Compared with this provision for deeper human needs, the average birthing place is an antiseptic and alien manger.
He is like the dog in the manger, who neither eats the hay himself nor allows others to do so.
Community nurses regularly act as care coordinators or mangers orchestrating the involvement of other services.
All too often these local authorities behave like the dog in the manger, or an irate parent forbidding the banns.
We hope to implement it in the not too distant future but in the meantime we are not dogs in the manger.
If they cannot use it, surely the dog in the manger policy ought not to be persisted in at this moment.
Wheat has mostly failed, and the oats are so light that the horses blow them out of the mangers instead of eating them.
I am not using those figures to try to be a dog in the manger.
