Citations:dead dog

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English citations of dead dog

  • 1 Samuel XXIV, 14
    After whom doest thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.
  • And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
  • 2005, John H. McClendon, C.L.R. James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism?, page 27
    The contemporary defeats suffered by the international working-class movement, in the past wo decades, are thought to be sufficient ground for the declaration that Marxism-Leninism, and its philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism, is a dead dog.