In the sidebar gadget on my blog where random OEDILF limericks pop up I just got one defining the phrase "dog's chance" or "dog's chance in hell".
I was interested because I have never heard precisely this phrase. I have only ever heard "cat's chance" or "cat's chance in hell" (or the rather more logical "snowball's chance" and "snowball's chance in hell")
Is this Cats/Dogs distinction a regional thing?
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Likelise, I can only think of a snowball's chance in hell. The phrases "dog's chance and "cat's chance", while somehow familiar, don't ring true. Maybe there's some confusion with other idioms like "dog's life" perhaps?
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Like arnie, I've heard snowball's chance. To me the phrase dog's chance sounds vaguely familiar, but that's all.
[Speaking of dogs, I wasn't going to post this here because it really isn't a word post, but now I will. Having just gotten 20 inches of snow and then zero degree weather, our poor dog feels just like this one in the article: Link]
