dogs
UK /dɒɡz/US /dɔɡz/
noun4
Phrases with dogs
- call off the dogsTo ease up on after inflicting great punishment.
- dogs bark, cats meowUsed to introduce something seen as inevitable or totally commonplace.
- go to the dogsTo decline or deteriorate shockingly.
- let sleeping dogs lieTo leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past.
- rain cats and dogsTo rain very heavily.
- throw to the dogsTo throw away as useless.