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Dog-sleep (A)

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A pretended sleep. Dogs seem to sleep with “one eye open.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dog-cheap
Dog-days
Dog-fall (in wrestling)
Dog-grass (triticum repens)
Dog-head (in machinery)
Dog-headed Tribes
Dog-Latin
Dog-leech (A)
Dog-rose
Dog-sick
Dog-sleep (A)
Dog-star
Dog-vane (A)
Dog-watch
Dog-whipper (A)
Dog-whipping Day
Dogs (a military term)
Dogs
Dogs
Dogs (Green)
Dogs-ears