dog-in-the-manger

Some dog-in-the-manger types chose to make bonfires and burn their abandoned goods in order to prevent others taking them up.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Some dog-in-the-manger types chose to make bonfires and burn their abandoned goods in order to prevent others taking them up.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Indeed, a pause (strike?) by mining companies in their investment programs may serve to focus the minds of some of the provincial administrations that tried to play the role of dog-in-the-manger or experienced overnight conversions to Greenness.

Maul Scale | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

Some dog-in-the-manger types chose to make bonfires and burn their abandoned goods in order to prevent others taking them up.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Some dog-in-the-manger types chose to make bonfires and burn their abandoned goods in order to prevent others taking them up.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

I think Ms. Ferraro needs to quit her dog-in-the-manger attitude.

Ferraro suggests she may not vote for Obama 2008

Either choice would be difficult, I'm sure, but there's something a bit dog-in-the-manger, or again, self-centered, to think that if a life that comes from me is going to be lived outside my control, outside my purview, then better, or easier for me, if that life just never exists.

Abortion Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry 2009

I am not speaking of O'bama; he seems to mean well but be greatly hampered by both dog-in-the-manger Republicans and Dems who act like Republicans.

Robert Kuttner: Listening to Paul Volcker 2009

And of course it just spawned a lot of security-consciousness and suspiciousness and made that owner be more powerful and more dog-in-the-manger than they needed to be.

Will Wright on Spore / Sims / SL 2007

At one, there is no champion in the RAF for helicopters yet, on the other hand – dog-in-the-manger style – the RAF refuses absolutely to hand over heavy rotary wing assets to the Army Air Corps.

Archive 2007-06-01 Richard 2007