(Zemedelec)


Somehow the phrase, "Dog in the manger" keeps floating through my brain...

Just in case . . .

The allusion is to one of Aesop’s fables, written about 600BC, in which a dog
was taking a nap in a manger. When an ox came and tried to eat the hay in the
manger, the dog barked furiously, snapped at him and wouldn’t let him get at
his food, food that, of course, was useless to the dog. At last the ox gave up
and went away muttering, “Ah, people often grudge others what they cannot
enjoy themselves”.