dog in the manger
собака на сене (о человеке, не желающим делать что-либо и мешающим другим)
Agatha lived alone in that big house, but she didn't let her relatives share it with her; she was like a dog in the manger.
Другие идиомы:
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- as clean as a hound's tooth
- hair of the dog that bit one
- as sick as a dog
- put on the dog
- rain cats and dogs
- every dog has his day
- let sleeping dogs lie
- to hound (someone)
- as crooked as a dog's hind leg
- fight like cats and dogs
- see a man about a dog
- in the doghouse
- dog-eat-dog
- dog and pony show