a dog in the manger

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   a person who stops other people from enjoying what he or she cannot use or does not want

   She's an ill-mannered little dog in the manger.

In the movies · 1

• She's an ill-mannered little dog in the manger.The Uninvited1944
• Well I ll be a goddamn dog in a mangerThe Hateful Eight2015

Learn it in full scenes

• The Uninvited1944
  • Pamela Falls for the Old House
  • The Fitzgeralds Try to Buy Windward
  • The Fitzgeralds Buy a Haunted House

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