Every Man and His Dog

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Example: Darlene is the company president, but if you look closely, you’ll see it’s really her assistant making the decisions. Her assistant is the tail that wags the dog. Dog idioms are also frequently used in movies and TV shows. In the movie Legally Blonde, the character Elle Woods uses the phrase “bend and snap” to describe a flirting technique. This phrase has become a popular idiom and is often used humorously to describe a clumsy attempt at flirting. The former student was so intrigued by the dog’s story that he published several articles detailing his loyalty. Every Man And His Dog Vineyard is located at 1314 Richmond Road, 1.3 miles from the center of Richmond. Old Hobart Town Model Village is the closest landmark to Every Man And His Dog Vineyard. A writer friend of mine posted a social media query asking for advice on verb choice. The phrase in question was “… since everyone and his poodle own/owns a gun…” Should the verb be in the singular or the plural?

It became even more well-known when the tale of a master and his loyal dog served as the plot to Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, an American movie starring Richard Gere and directed by Lasse Hallström. Substitution and analogy are often useful tools in figuring out a grammatical pattern, but are everyone and his dog normal singular nouns? Not really. Everyone is what’s known as an indefinite pronoun which, like its less formal counterpart everybody, is singular (we say Everyone is reading, not Everyone are reading). By itself, the phrase his dog would also be singular, but his dog is not functioning as a normal noun in the expression Everyone and his dog.One can also make this idiom feminine in one of two ways: switching every man or everyone to every woman (or girl, lady); switching their dog for their mother or another female figure. Some of these are constructions used to specify women instead of men, e.g.: Embark on an enchanting journey through our vines and experience the captivating allure of Every Man and His Dog Vineyard. Dog idioms have been used in popular culture for many years, appearing in literature, movies, and TV shows. Here are a few examples of how dog idioms have been used in popular culture: Literature Every Man And His Dog Vineyard is located at 1314 Richmond Road, 1.3 miles from the centre of Richmond. Old Hobart Town Model Village is the closest landmark to Every Man And His Dog Vineyard. So should the verb be the plural own because the compound subject is connected by and? Some people suggested resolving the issue by relying on substitution or analogy: “Both the poodle and everyone are singular,” someone proposed. “Replace them both with other normal singular nouns to figure out the construction.”

Don't make assumptions about people before you know who they are. Gary assumed Carl was a drunk and a danger before he knew anything about him. When a team or an athlete is expected to lose in a competition, they are the underdogs. We’re talking about boxing, tennis, football, and other sports. This word is also used to describe a person that overcomes a challenge despite all odds. In dogfighting, the term “underdog” was first introduced in the late 1880s when talking about a hound that lost a brawl. Nestled among the region’s oldest vineyards, Every Man and His Dog is one of Tasmania’s smallest commercial wineries. Owners Maurice and Helen Curtis personally oversee every aspect of the winemaking process, ensuring meticulous attention to detail. Sometimes, gigantic industries are controlled by a smaller subsidiary. That’s a great example of a tail wagging the dog. Sometimes, this phrase is used when the roles are reversed, like the financial sector taking control over the country or football clubs dictating their conditions to sports channels.

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We also have a wine tasting like no other, with our Wine and Chocolate parings which will take you on a journey on how we make our wines and create delectable chocolates that match them. As some commenters on Everyone and his dog pointed out, there is also the question of the pronoun. One suggested that everyone and everybody “used to be” singular and thus required singular pronouns (as in Everyone has his or her own cup), but that today more and more speakers, writers, and style guides were recommending singular their. It’s certainly true that singular their is well on its way to becoming the norm, but the idea that everyone and everybody used to require singular verbs needs some context and correction. Again and again, in these stories, while dogs are domesticated, men open up. Tom Flynn, the screenwriter of Togo, tells BBC Culture that men "are trained to bury those emotions so you don't cry" and believes that in showing quintessentially masculine men connecting with their vulnerability, one-man-and-and-his-dog movies offer a positive flipside to the whole cultural conversation over toxic masculinity. However, at the same time, he argues that for many characters in these stories – like his lead Leonhard Seppala (Dafoe), a musher (or dog sled driver) who has to navigate life-threatening conditions – their emoting has to have limits. "You think about Alaska in the 1920s, or in a lot of these movies where we place this type of guy, they have to turn it off," he says. "Seppala's got a business to run. He can't take chances and he can't get sentimental about these things because it's life and death." Example: The business world can be dog-eat-dog. Companies will do whatever it takes to stay ahead of the competition. Some online dictionaries, like Wiktionary, suggest everyone and their dog or everybody and their dog as non-gender versions of every man and his dog. These have been in use for a while. For instance, here is an excerpt from "Reminisces" in The Railway Agent and Station Agent magazine from February 1894: