dog's life

Noun

 * 1)  A miserable, wretched existence.
 * 2)  A life of indolence where the individual may do as he or she pleases, just like a pampered dog.

Usage notes
Originally the term referred to the hard life of the working dog: sleeping in a damp barn, chasing rats and other intruders, living on scraps, etc. Today, however, it has in some circles acquired the completely opposite connotation indicated in sense 2.

Translations

 * Danish: hundeliv
 * Finnish:
 * French: vie de chien, vie de galérien
 * German: Hundeleben
 * Greek:
 * Italian: vita da cani
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hundeliv
 * Nynorsk: hundeliv
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: vida de cão
 * Russian:


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