Carrol,
Thanks for the correction thought I could have sworn I had it right.
best,
Tom
Carrol Cox wrote:
> nagy wrote:
> >
> > I "running lacky dogs" (to use the salubrious phrase from the 60s .
> >
>
> Ahem. Let's be precise in our memories. :-)
>
> "Lackeys and running dogs" was the phrase (copied from the Chinese).
>
> Incidentally, I never did know the fact behind the image of "running
> dogs"; I've always associated it with the coach dogs of aristocrats in
> the west, but I don't know what the source was in China.
>
> Carrol
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