A dog in the manger - Собака на сене

The metaphor a dog in the manger is used to describe a churlish person who refuses to let another enjoy what he himself has no use for. The allusion is to Aesop’s well-known fable of the dog that, though it had no use for the hay in the manger, growled at the horses and would not let them eat it.

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