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USF Posted 14 years ago
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Is this idiomatic?
Could you please tell me whether the text in bold is idiomatic or not?
A) Have you still not learned how to dress yourself?
B) You don't have a dog and fetch the stick yourself.
A) Have you still not learned how to dress yourself?
B) You don't have a dog and fetch the stick yourself.
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Hi, A) Have you still not learned how to dress yourself? Fine. B) You don't have a dog and fetch the stick yourself .
- Hi, A) Have you still not learned how to dress yourself?
- Fine.
- B) You don't have a dog and fetch the stick yourself .
- Fine, but I haven't heard this.
- What I often hear is You don't have a dog and bark yourself.
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Hi,
A) Have you still not learned how to dress yourself? Fine.
B) You don't have a dog and fetch the stick yourself. Fine, but I haven't heard this.
What I often hear is You don't have a dog and bark yourself.
Clive
A) Have you still not learned how to dress yourself? Fine.
B) You don't have a dog and fetch the stick yourself. Fine, but I haven't heard this.
What I often hear is You don't have a dog and bark yourself.
Clive
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A is apparently referring to B's mother or servant, who dresses him so that he doesn't have to dress himself. So B has never learned to dress himself. A points this out, and B, unconcerned, says: If you have a dog, the dog fetches the stick not you, and if you have a servant, the servant dresses you, not you.
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It is Britain, and yes, it is a conversation between a master and a servant. I haven't seen exactly this as an idiom, and I was thinking about whether this is an idiom or not.
Thanks for your reply.
Thanks for your reply.
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