Indeed, in the dog-eat-dog world of politics, it must sometimes feel like a dog is not just man's best friend, but his only one.
We say it's a dog-eat-dog world, but really we're talking about ourselves.
We are locked in the hermetic, dog-eat-dog world of the court, where every smile is false.
It may sometimes seem like a dog-eat-dog world, but in much of nature, just who eats whom is a lot more complicated than that.
Nice to know there's somebody you can count on in today's dog-eat-dog world.
"And after all, we know you're a novice in the dog-eat-dog world of real estate."
"It's going to be a dog-eat-dog world, with everyone going after these schools," he said.
"And then there are the people who wish they had taken something that would give them a leg up in the dog-eat-dog world of business."
It's a huge step towards the kind of dog-eat-dog world he so abhors.
Maybe I've failed to realize what a dog-eat-dog world it is out there.