buy a dog and bark oneself: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    historicalEnglish-speaking worldarchaicproverbial
    • A proverbial admonition that warns a purchaser or newcomer that acquiring something often entails assuming its attendant duties and responsibilities oneself.
    • To incur or accept the burdens and tasks that accompany owning, hiring, or engaging something rather than expecting others to perform them.

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