Translation of manger – English–German dictionary
manger
noun
/ˈmeindʒə/ (Translation of manger from the PASSWORD English–German Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)
Examples of manger
manger
I hope that they will stop looking at it as though they were dogs in the manger likely to obstruct other countries from achieving it.
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He is like the dog in the manger, who neither eats the hay himself nor allows others to do so.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
If they cannot use it, surely the dog in the manger policy ought not to be persisted in at this moment.
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We hope to implement it in the not too distant future but in the meantime we are not dogs in the manger.
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Wheat has mostly failed, and the oats are so light that the horses blow them out of the mangers instead of eating them.
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All too often these local authorities behave like the dog in the manger, or an irate parent forbidding the banns.
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Compared with this provision for deeper human needs, the average birthing place is an antiseptic and alien manger.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
That is hardly a dog in the manger attitude.
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