[Ads-l] Adage: It ’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’ =?UTF-8?Q?s_?=the size of the fight in the dog that wins

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Way back in 2015 dearly missed mailing list participant Joel Berson
asked about the adage in the subject line, and I responded.

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2015-October/139238.html
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2015-October/139250.html

Now there is a Quote Investigator article on the topic.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/09/20/size-dog/

[Begin acknowledgement]
In memoriam: scholar Joel Berson. Great thanks to Joel Berson whose
inquiry in 2015 led QI to explore this topic and share initial results
on a mailing list. Thanks also to discussant Jonathan Lighter. Further
thanks to previous researchers including by Charles Clay Doyle,
Wolfgang Mieder, Fred R. Shapiro, and Matt Seybold.
[End acknowledgement]

Garson

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