I don't have a dog in this horse.
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I don't have a race in this fight.
"I don't fight in other people's races."
Implies that my fighting is done strictly at my own behest:-).
My two favorite malaphors:
- It's not rocket surgery.
- We will burn that bridge when we get to it.
That’s all water under the fridge at this point.
Not sure what's the idiom with "fridge" in it.
There isn’t one, it’s a malaphor imposter!
Malaphor, my new favorite word Also: "she looks like she's been through the run of the mill"
"He looks like he fell out of the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down."
I use those both regularly. And people seem totally unable to tell whether I am doing it on purpose.
"Shit or get out of the kitchen" is my current favorite malaphor.
I use "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it" pretty frequently myself
"I don't have a hot dog in this bun" - me to the Costco worker.
"Whatever guy, it's like $2 and I know you just swallowed the whole damn thing, but here, sure, I'll give you another one while you hold your bag with 5 pounds of hot pockets and a 3L bottle of Johnny Walker blue. "
-the Costco worker
I'm not a native English speaker, but in my experience "I don't have a horse in this race" seems more common.
I'm a native, and I'd agree. But it's a funny post so, I'll ignore that.
IMO, "dog in this fight" is more common where Ive lived: Appalachia, mid-Atlantic, Midwest. I wouldn't be surprised if it also varies by region, class, etc.
"I'm not the sharpest crayon in the basket. "
"Does the pope shit in the woods?"
"He was like a dildo in a lightbulb store: wasn't the brightest, but never failed to please his teacher."
Grim? Tell spanish people: "I don't have a candle in this burial."
"I don't have a horse in this dog": incoherent, fanciful, drunk
“I don’t have a sea slug in this drive by.” Conjures images of underwater sea violence and muddies your message.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I prefer, due to my white trash rural roots:
"That dog won't hunt."
"I don't have a race-fight in this horse-dog" : questionable morals; supernatural or sci-fi undertones; a good chance for double-takes, perhaps even the odd triple-take
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I don't have a don't in this don't.
This is the true evolution
"I dont have a horse in this fight" makes sense if context is Calvary charge. I dk im drunk.
And a dog in this race for greyhound racing
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"I don't have any skin in this game"
Who's betting pieces of skin?
Antonio?
There's a YouTuber named Memoria Matters who has an inside joke that she's trying to popularize the idiom "too many dogs on the dance floor". I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any particular meaning, however. It came up quite a few times during her Alien: Isolation let's play, however.
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The older "Dog in the hunt" is a bit less grim.
Unless you're a fox...
I don't know. I don't have a horse in this dogfight. Still working on his pilot's license.
"I don't have a monkey in this circus"
i have no beef in this stew
"I don't have a child with this horse."
'Corn Maze' by Aesop Rock
"The phone pings from a pillow fort in a corn maze. I don't have a horse in your war games"
did someone say synthesis?
Wow, that does provoke strong imagery. That's a great looking dog in a great looking race. I hope he wins.
I don't have one horse size duck or 100 duck sized horses in this race.
I don't have a fight in this race