Смысл: bulldogs

bulldog[ʹbʋldɒg]
n
<Í> 1. 1) бульдог (порода собак)
2) упорный, цепкий человек
2. унив. жарг. педель (в Оксфорде и Кембридже)
3. сл. крупнокалиберный револьвер
4. амер. овод
5. австрал. муравей
6. разг. курительная трубка

dogs Идиома

call off the dogs

tell your friends to stop harassing me Okay, I'll pay what I owe you. But call off the dogs!

gone to the dogs

not well maintained, in very poor condition My garden has gone to the dogs. It's full of dandelions and weeds.

let sleeping dogs lie

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rain cats and dogs

rain very hard It has been raining cats and dogs all day.

raining cats and dogs

raining hard, raining heavily You need a raincoat, Dear. It's raining cats and dogs!

throw you to the dogs

let you fight alone, let you fight the bad guys Let us help you. The pimps will throw you to the dogs.

dogs

1. feet
2. see also throw my dogs on ya

throw my dogs on ya

to have a fist fight

go to the dogs

deteriorate very badly；go to ruin大大变坏；走向灭亡；堕落
The man went to the dogs after he started drinking and gambling．此人开始酗酒和赌博以后，就堕落了。

call the dogs off

Idiom(s): call the dogs off

Theme: THREATENING

to stop threatening, chasing, or hounding (a person); (literally) to order dogs away from the chase. (Informal. Note the variations in the examples.)
• All right, I surrender. You can call your dogs off.
• Tell the sheriff to call off the dogs. We caught the robber.
• Please call off your dogs!

Dogs of the same street bark alike.

People from the same background have the same behaviour.

Even the dogs in the street know

(Irish) This idiom is used frequently in Ireland, and means something is so obvious that even the dogs in the street know it.

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fl

This means that if you become involved with bad company, there will be negative consequences.

My dogs are barking

(USA) When someone says this, they mean that their feet are hurting.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

People who talk a lot or threaten may not be actually harmful.

go to the dogs|dogs|go

v. phr., informal To go to ruin; to be ruined or destroyed. The man went to the dogs after he started drinking. After the death of the owner, the business went to the dogs. The team went to the dogs when its best players got hurt.
Compare: GO TO POT.

let sleeping dogs lie|dog|dogs|let|lie|sleeping|sl

Do not make (someone) angry and cause trouble or danger; do not make trouble if you do not have to.

A proverb. Don't tell Father that you broke the window. Let sleeping dogs lie.

rain cats and dogs (pitchforks)|cat|cats|cats and

v. phr., informal To rain very hard; come down in torrents. In the middle of the picnic it started to rain cats and dogs, and everybody got soaked. Terry looked out of the window and said, "It's raining pitchforks, so we can't go out to play right now."