put on the dog

Believe me, you don't have to put on the dog for him.

But the more cunning among us put on the dog to do wrong.

Used to put on the dog; talked like an Englishman.

It's a good address, and Butch always liked to put on the dog.

You couldn't blame them for putting on the dog, so to speak.

No more putting on the dog for company.

Then there are the "Let's put on the dog.

"Except for the clean, they didn't do much to put on the dog back here, did they?"

"Look Who's Talking Now" is a movie that takes to heart the idea of putting on the dog.

Let me put on the dogs first."

"They tell me he does put on the dog, so," said Idella Harp.

Shemane and her mother putting on the dog and getting fried every night?

Another phony putting on the dog?

Putting on the Dog The new maternity ward was a noteworthy stop on the building tour.

From time to time, when someone was really putting on the dog, the chicken a la king was served in patty shells.

I mention old-world writers, I have highbrow airs and appear to put on the dog.

I liked the idea of someone who didn't feel the need to put on the dog on a first date, who could just go someplace comfortable.

Putting On the Dog Creating a photo collage is a complex operation for home photo software, and the simplest products were the least effective.

Are you putting on the dog or did you really do something energetic last night requiring a high-protein intake. . . such as getting laid?

I'm very comfortable talking to whomever is next to me at the table and making him my best friend, but I'm not good at putting on the dog.

No, what I'm saying is Mr. Taylor could put on the dog and be accepted as a colorful character--no pun intended.

Putting on the Dog There will be many fur coats on display at Macy's on Sunday, but not because the store is having an end-of-season sale.

As usual, the setting is a 100-acre horse farm and, as usual, the Hounds are putting on the dog for the affair, said to approach Saratoga in showiness.

"Potemkin couldn't teach Halifax a thing about putting on the dog," noted Jim Meek, columnist for The Halifax Chronicle-Herald.

This expression was defined by the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement as "dressed or arranged in an ostentatiously smart or flashy manner," probably derived from the 1871 usage "to put on the dog ."