dead dog

基本解释

My dead dog, Bobby, doesn't do tricks anymore.
我的死狗博比再也不能玩那些小把戏了。
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
以色列王出来要寻找谁呢？追赶谁呢？不过追赶一条死狗，一个虼蚤就是了。
I knew if something wasn't done quickly the sanitation department would have to pick up a dead dog.
我知道假如不做点什么，那很快环境卫生部门就得来收拾一只死狗了。

These varied from taking money found in a lost wallet, via eating a family's dead dog to avoid starvation, to using a kitten for sexual arousal.
ECONOMIST: Soaping away your outer dirt may lead to inner evil
Beneath the burned odor left by the vacuum, he could smell the dust still in the rug—salt and sand and dried skin from her kids, her husband, her now dead dog.
NEWYORKER: The Yellow
They were total strangers except for this dead dog.
NEWYORKER: The Yellow