Sometimes you just have to make a bold statement to make someone get your point. Of course, if you’re a Texan, you just like to be colorful and emphatic anyway.
“You don’t have a dog in this fight” is a way of telling someone to back off, because the situation is not their concern. It’s also a way of warning someone that they shouldn’t interfere in someone else’s business, lest they get hurt.
So instead of saying, “Butt out” as our Yankee cousins might, we say that dog-fight thing, which is kind of more polite, don’t you think?
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