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dog's life

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dog's life
n. Slang
A miserably unhappy existence.


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I am afraid I led that boy a dog's life, for as he was new to the work, I had a hundred opportunities of setting him right and putting him down, and I was not slow to profit by them.
Honestly, it is but a dog's life, that of the short-story writer.
It was the steam -- the steam -- that was going down; and what between the firemen going faint and the chief going silly, it was worse than a dog's life for him; he didn't care a tinker's curse how soon the whole show was blown out of the water.
 
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