"screw the pooch"

Thu Dec 19 00:50:18 UTC 2013

Jesse located many valuable citations with various phrases. See pages
22 and 23 for phrases with dog (visible in GB).

The F-Word edited by Jesse Sheidlower

http://books.google.com/books?id=I_AGK-49nlcC&q=%22screwing+the+dog%22#v=snippet&

Garson

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
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> "Seducing the canine" = "loafing" can be found at G-books: in a 2013
> book it is apparently quoted from a 1952 book, and there are synonymous
> "seducing the dog", "catching the dog", "dogging it".
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