two men and a dog
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two men and a dog
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Synonym of one man and his dog (“almost nobody; very few people”).
By present-day standards, of course, these count as just two men and a dog, but were a remarkable concentration for the day, certainly far beyond anything to be found in the private sector. In actual numbers the staff had not much changed since the amalgamation of 1850, but there had been a signific
Similar: one man and his dog
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two, men, dog.
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