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put on dog (a US expression first recorded in 1871, in a book by L. H. Bagg 'Four Years at Yale': "Dog, style, splurge. To put on dog, is to make a flashy display, to cut a swell".: It’s extraordinary how one yields to that fatal temptation to swank. It undoes the best of us. Nothing, I mean, would have been simpler than to reply that she had got the data twisted and that the authoritatively annotated edition was a present for Jeeves. But, instead of doing the simple, manly, straightforward thing, I had to go and put on dog. ‘Oh, rather,’ I said, with an intellectual flick of the umbrella. ‘When I have a leisure moment, you will generally find me curled up with Spinoza’s latest.’ -- мне нужно было повыпендриваться перед ней ART Vancouver) |
