it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
47
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
8
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The ancient Prouerbe will be well effected, A Staffe is quickly found to beat a Dogge."
- "For all this, however, poor Tom smarted in the flesh; for though Thwackum had been inhibited to exercise his arm on the foregoing account, yet, as the proverb says, It is easy to find a stick, &c. So was it easy to find a rod; and, indeed, the not being able to find one was the only thing which could have kept Thwackum any long time from chastising poor Jones."