Citations:everyone and their dog

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English citations of everyone and their dog

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  • 1979 — Jerry Cammarata & Frances Spatz Leighton, The Fun Book of Fatherhood, Pinnacle Books (1979), →ISBN, page 57:
    In fact, it is the question the expectant mother asks everyone and their dog. Should mothers breast feed their babies?
  • 1989 — Andrew Vaughan, Who's Who in New Country Music, Omnibus Press (1989), →ISBN:
    At the height of country blandness during the Urban Cowboy era that saw everyone and their dog regaling themselves in western gear and attempting to emulate the cool screen presence of John Travolta and Co, []
  • 1996 — Juha Saarinen, "Hot dog! Web page editor really cuts the mustard", InfoWorld, 15 April 1996:
    Everyone and their dog has a Web page these days, proof enough the Internet is here to stay.
  • 1997Ian Rankin, Black and Blue, St. Martin's Press (1999), →ISBN, page 68:
    "Everyone and their dog knows Uncle Joe."
  • 2001Patricia Briggs, The Hob's Bargain, Ace (2001), →ISBN, page 229:
    "What power? Should I worry that everyone and their dog knows my name?"
  • 2005 — Robert Elmer, The Celebrity, WaterBrook Press (2005), →ISBN, page 269:
    Which is what everyone and their dog said on answering machines.
  • 2008 — John Edwards, "Who Provides What in the Cloud", PC World, 27 August 2008:
    "Everyone and their dog will be in cloud computing next year," predicts Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of research at Nucleus Research, a technology research firm.
  • 2009 — Susan Case, That's a Dead One Alright, Tate Publishing (2009), →ISBN, page 114:
    "Mind you, this was years before everyone and their dog had a cell phone."