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bschmidt | 03:23 Wed 04th Dec 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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What does 'a dog's life' mean?
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The phrase has been used since at least as far back as the 1700s to mean a life of misery or one of total subservience to someone else. People weren't always as kind to dogs as we now tend - or at least claim - to be and they are of course utterly submissive to their masters.

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