dogs of war

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English

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"Many believe that this country should set the other nations of the world a great moral example by pulling the teeth of our dogs of war, making them lambs, and inviting the lions to lie down with them, unheedful of the lesson of all ages that when the lion does lie down with the lamb, the lamb is always inside the lion."
"His tragedy is an eloquent critique of Europe's leaders, diplomats, and intellectuals who were, again, about to unleash the dogs of war."
"It should not come to anyone's surprise that the dogs of war, once loosed, did not and do not take readily to the leash."
"It became a practice on our side, at 10 o'clock each day, to turn all of these dogs of war loose upon the enemy for an hour or so."

Coined by William Shakespeare in 1599 in "Julius Caesar," act 3, scene 1: : Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war.