it is a poor dog that’s not worth whistling for
- it is a poor dog that’s not worth whistling for
1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. xi. It is, as I haue learned in lystnyng, A poore dogge, that is not worth the whistlyng.
1614 W. CAMDEN Remains concerning Britain (ed. 2) 303 A poore dog that is not worth the whystling.
1738 SWIFT Polite Conversation i. 41 Because, Miss, you never ask’d me; and ’tis an ill Dog that’s not worth whistling for.
1952 W. S. HOOLE Alias Simon Suggs i. It was a poor dog indeed that wasn’t worth whistling for.
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