词汇 | till the last dog is hung |
词源 | till the last dog is hung. Until the very end or resolution of something. The earliest mention of the phrase is in a history of the Civil War published in 1865: “I stayed until the last dog was hung and had to laugh to see how mad the Col (Colonel) got.” |
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