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Can the origins of these phrases be traced by anyone here? Maybe an unfair shipyard? You may write a small essay about these expressions too or use them in a sentence.
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Re: Dog Eat Dog and/or Odd Man Out
Sun, May 3, 2009 - 12:41 PM"Dog eat dog. You've never seen dogs in a pack turn on each other when one gets injured?" -from:
www.neatorama.com/search-result.htm
Seems to imply that packs of wild dogs would eat their injured packmembers for the greater good.
"Odd man out" seems to be a harder nut to crack...