What does crooked as a dog's hind leg mean?

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crooked as a dog's hind leg

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English

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bent as a nine-bob note phony as a three-dollar bill

bent as a nine-bob note phony as a three-dollar bill

What does crooked as a dog's hind leg mean?: Very unscrupulous and deceptive.

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