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dog don’t hunt

Verb meaning whatever you’re discussing isn’t going to work, you lack proper equipment, what was proposed is unacceptable or lacking significantly. My son asked me to check his room to see if it was clean. I glanced around his bedroom and exclaimed, “Timmy, that dog don’t hunt.”
I glanced down at my engagement ring and looked at my new fiancé in disgust and said “Billy, that dog don’t hunt”
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I ain't got no dog in that hunt

A state of no involvement, having no effects upon oneself.

Outcome does not effect me.
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that dog don't hunt

pseudo-country-bumpkin wisdom uttered in response to news item or rumor designed to scandalize a political opponent.

The idea is that the rumor is either very easily refuted or is unimportant to the public, and thus is as worthless as a dog who won't hunt.
Bush is trying to spread rumors about Kerry's Vietnam record but that dog won't hunt.
by cnorton March 31, 2004
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that dog don't hunt

1. a way of saying a particular man is a homosexual, wimp or sissy. used by the Bush administration in the campaign against Kerry by using a picture of a fox hound wearing a tutu with the caption "that dog don't hunt," referring to the eventual state of the nation if Kerry had won.

2. a way of saying you or someone else is not interested in a particular activity.
Joe: <to Rick> I heard you were going to go rock climbing with Jim tomorrow.

Rick: uh uh, that dog don't hunt.
by andrew holley August 7, 2005
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That dog don't fish

An object, action, or statement that is so absurd it defies standard logic.
Person 1: I have been wearing my pants inside-out all week.
Person 2: Well that dog don't fish, get some sense.
by Superdog- fuschia October 11, 2017
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that dog ain't gonna hunt

That is a phrase a hunter may use or in general, a southern phrase meaning, "it's not gonna happen".
It's so cold outside;that dog ain't gonna hunt!" . Meaning, I ain't going out there, it's to cold.
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Like a dog in't wind

I'm like a dog in't wind...
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