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johnslat · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:06 pm Post subject:

Dear blackwellben,

"I have no "dog in the fight". What fight? There's a fight?"

It's an American idiom - thus the figurative language:

"If you have no dog in this fight, you are not taking sides in an argument. One web site calls this "an old Southern expression," but it was not in widespread use before 1980, making it one of the most recent idioms in this collection."

Regards,
John

blackwellben · Joined: 06 Nov 2010 Posts: 121 Location: Saudi Arabia

John

I wasn't unaware of the saying.
I was speaking to the AP's quick reduction of my questions and criticism as having an agenda-- I believe their use of the phrase speaks to their mindset.

You, on the other paw...you can take the dog out of the fight, but you take the fight out of the dog.

johnslat · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:24 pm Post subject:

Dear blackwellben,

Well, when dealing with paranoid minds such as mine, perhaps it shouldn't come as too great a surprise that such suspicions might arise. Very Happy

To add to the idioms: "'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.'

Attributed to Mark Twain

Regards,
John