Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/16/2011 11:23 AM, George Thompson wrote:
>My father was born in Brooklyn in the early 1890s.  Ca. 1950 he would use
>"see a man about a dog" at least sometimes to mean that he was going to
>leave my mother and me to find a bar and have a beer.

My father didn't leave my mother and me to go to a bar (if he went to
bars at all, it must have been after work before he arrived home), so
I only know it as Larry heard it, to euphemize a bathroom visit.

Joel

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