Betekenis van:
dog in the manger

dog in the manger
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • someone who prevents you from enjoying something that they themselves have no need for

    Hyperoniemen


    Voorbeeldzinnen

    1. A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like a dog in the manger even with his friends.
    2. The seventy year old man kept his twenty year old wife at home all the time; he had a dog in the manger attitude.
    3. Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.