English Dictionary

keep a dog and bark oneself

動詞

別表記 異形

Alternative form of buy a dog and bark oneself

日本語の意味

犬を飼って自分で吠える、すなわち他人任せにせず自分自身でもその役割を果たすという意味です。 / 「buy a dog and bark oneself」と同義の変形表現で、自ら行動を起こす、または自分で責任を取るというニュアンスを含みます。

Rather than relying on others, one might choose to keep a dog and bark oneself to feel less lonely.

他人に頼るよりも、孤独を紛らわせるために犬を飼い、自分で吠えることを選ぶ人もいる。

意味（1）

Alternative form of buy a dog and bark oneself

At Potsdam, Attlee was not at all bothered that trade-union leader Ernest Bevin, his new foreign minister, seemed to do all the talking while Attlee sat silent, wreathed in pipe smoke, nodding his head. “You don't keep a dog and bark yourself,” he explained, “and Ernie was a very good dog.”

keeps a dog and barks oneself （ present singular third-person ）

keeping a dog and barking oneself （ participle present ）

kept a dog and barked oneself （ participle past ）

kept a dog and barked oneself （ past ）