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you can take a dog to a tree but you can't make it bend its leg

The application of the expression 'you can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink' the more familiar domestic dog.
When someone either deliberately or through stupidity refuses to take the obvious decision or follow the necessary course of action.
Can also be "...cock its leg".
A: "I told X to look at the new proceedures before the promotion interview"
B: "yeah, well, you can take a dog to a tree but you can't make it bend its leg".
by MoLincs September 20, 2009
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A phrase (often negative) that describes the speaker but said speaker does not want to be associated with and so they try to obfuscate it by calling their opponents alarmists.

9/10 times, the person using this statement fits the description to the letter.
Fascism is a phrase that has been thrown around so much it has lost its meaning. Anyway, let's talk about the Jewish Question.
by Sninck May 29, 2022
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im sorry i didnt mean to scare you. Its my bad romance

when he goes for a pee you enter his room and leave something of personal value. like a friendly message but not 100% traceable.
"hey did you put the nutella jar on my keyboard?"
"so then i come back and im freaking out coz theres a buzzing dildo in my pressure cooker!"

"im sorry i didnt mean to scare you. Its my bad romance ♡"
by Krkič November 8, 2020
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when some one asks u a question u dont really know the answer to or just dont want to answer ...annoy them with this.
If a really fit girl asks you who u fancy more:

"Who do you fancy more, me or your girlfriend?"

You answer:

"well errrrm its probably blatent that maybe i dont actually just quite know..."
by Rhys November 12, 2004
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