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why keep a dog and bark yourself

why keep a dog and bark yourself proverb: one should not do something that one has hired someone else to do.

Proverb

why keep a dog and bark yourself?

  1. (colloquial, rhetoric) One should not do something that one has hired someone else to do.

Questions about why keep a dog and bark yourself

What does why keep a dog and bark yourself mean?
Why keep a dog and bark yourself means one should not do something that one has hired someone else to do.
What part of speech is why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Why keep a dog and bark yourself is a proverb.

Words near why keep a dog and bark yourself in the dictionary

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