"Dogs don't bark at parked cars"

[Mark Mandel]

If she's from there, she may have heard it back home and not (or not much)
anywhere else.

m a m

On 10/26/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> At least twice recently, Lynne Cheyney has quoted this "saying":



Does anyone have any knowledge of the saying as a proverb? There are a few
> hundred Google hits--some dating from at least as far back as the early
> 1900s. Is the Wyoming connection just Mrs. Cheney's effort to seem folksy?
>
> Any information will be appreciated!
>
> --Charlie
>

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