Talk:dog that caught the car
Note[edit]
There is a formal source
- "the dog has caught the car", 'The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2nd ed., 2013.
which however bizarrely took a nonceword variant as its main heading and mistakenly attributed it as American when it's patently lept those oceans decades ago. I'll leave it here but don't think it's worth confusing the article or even creating a separate entry for the variant.
Similarly note Dan Bron's forceful but entirely mistaken confusion of the idiom as meaning the dog has been killed in the relevant StackExchange thread. The examples given there, here, and in the world at large seem to never intend it in that sense as far as I've seen. There is obviously a vocal minority who misunderstand it that way, but it isn't clear they themselves use it.
On the other hand, the dog joke in the StackExchange thread might have been the original etymon, although it's hard to believe that could ever be conclusively shown. — LlywelynII 17:33, 10 May 2022 (UTC)