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Will they end up running dog kennels or holiday cottages?

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2013

"We have the stunt dog, the running dog and the picture dog," trainer Mathilde de Cagny whispers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within weeks, the People's Daily switched lines, that Singapore is no longer a running dog of the Americans, it's a very nice city, a garden city, good public housing, very clean place.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has shown us, for instance, that the galloping race-horse, with legs stretched out as we are used to see it, is a mythical animal, probably founded on the mental image or a running dog.

From Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People by Underhill, Evelyn

Perspiration was streaming into his eyes, he was panting like a running dog, his blows were losing force.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman