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dogs that caught the car

dogs that caught the car is the plural of dog that caught the car.

Meaning of dog that caught the car

Noun

dog that caught the car (plural dogs that caught the car)

  1. (colloquial, especially, idiomatic) A person who has unexpectedly attained an aspirational goal and is now unsure what to do with it.
    • So I went out, and I was telling the President about what a tough time being Governor was. I felt like the dog that caught the car; I really wasn't equipped to be governor... When I got ready to leave, I realized that I had bored a guy who had to make the decision to drop the bomb, telling him what...1987, Dale Bumpers, “Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution”, in Senate Hearings before the Committee on Appropriations, 99-1027, Pr. 2, p. 634

Questions about dogs that caught the car

What is dogs that caught the car the plural of?
Dogs that caught the car is the plural of dog that caught the car.

Words near dogs that caught the car in the dictionary

  1. dogs in mangers
  2. dogs in the manger
  3. dogs it
  4. dogs of war
  5. dogs out
  6. dogs that caught the car
  7. dogs' dinners
  8. dogs' lives
  9. dogs**t
  10. dogs-bane
  11. dogs-banes

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