why keep a dog and bark yourself
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English
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Proverb
[edit]why keep a dog and bark yourself?
- (rhetorical question, colloquial) One should not do something that one has hired someone else to do.
Further reading
[edit]- “why keep a dog and bark yourself”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “why keep a dog and bark yourself”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.