[Ads-l] like a dog

[Wilson Gray]

> dumped like a dog

I.e. "did him like he had a tail"

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 7:39 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In a Tweet this a.m., the same popular politician reports that when former
> naval officer, investment banker, and Hollywood producer Steve Bannon was
> fired last year, he "cried and begged for his job."
>
> Now, "Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone."
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:22 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I know naught of the practices of the proverbial dog catchers running for
> > election, but in Taiwan stray dogs were caught and strangled on the spot
> > (... uncontrollable giggle ...), until fairly recently. Stray cats fared
> a
> > gruesome fate, being killed & hung up in bags on trees.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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