Meaning of one man and his dog | Babel Free
Definitions
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Almost nobody; very few people. idiomatic
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one, man, dog.
Equivalents
Español
cuatro gatos
Suomi
ani harva
Français
trois pelés et un tondu
Italiano
quattro gatti
Nederlands
anderhalve man en een paardenkop
Português
gato pingado
Examples
“People around here tell me that they can remember the days when the hospital was run by just one man and his dog. Then people knew everyone by name and it was quite common to find a boss who knew details of his staff's domestic lives. Things have certainly changed today.”
“We have stressed that this is the kind of work which not just one man and his dog could carry out, it needed input from various different specialisms,^([sic]) and we were looking particularly for collaborative approaches which would allow the measurement and toxicology and so on all to be dealt with as part of a larger consortium.”
“[...] he could foresee a huge manufacturing complex operated by one man and his dog ...”
“Rodgers' pregame press conference was rammed, whilst Pellegrini's was attended by one man and his dog as tumbleweeds drifted by.”
“And not just blogs read only by one man and his dog.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.