Martha Scott

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

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go to the dogs

[go to the dogs] {v. phr.}, {informal} To go to ruin; to be ruined or destroyed. * /The man went to the dogs after he started drinking./ * /After the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

let sleeping dogs lie

[let sleeping dogs lie] Do not make (someone) angry and cause trouble or danger; do not make trouble if you do not have to. - A proverb. * /Don't tell […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

dog

[dog] See: [EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY], [GO TO THE DOGS], [HOT DOG], [LEAD A DOG'S LIFE], [LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE], [RAIN CATS AND DOGS]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

rain cats and dogs

[rain cats and dogs] or [rain buckets] or [rain pitchforks] {v. phr.}, {informal} To rain very hard; come down in torrents. * /In the middle of the picnic it started […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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витать в облаках

[витать в облаках] {v. phr.} {informal} To be absent-minded, laid-back; think about something different than […]

parade rest

[parade rest] {n.} A position in which soldiers stand still, with feet apart and hands behind their backs. * /The marines […]

puffed up

[puffed up] {adj.} Elated; proud; conceited. * /Just because Bob inherited some money from his father is no reason for him […]

James Thurber

(1894--), Life (March 14, 1960) Let the meek inherit the earth--they have it coming to them.