Idiom
buy a dog and bark oneself
Meaning
To do something that one has hired someone else to do.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you hire a cleaner, do not buy a dog and bark yourself.”
“The manager keeps rewriting the reports instead of trusting his team, effectively buying a dog and barking himself.”
“By constantly micromanaging the tasks he delegated to his expert consultants, the CEO ended up buying a dog and barking himself, much to the frustration of his staff.”
Examples
simple
“If you hire a cleaner, do not buy a dog and bark yourself.”
contextual
“The manager keeps rewriting the reports instead of trusting his team, effectively buying a dog and barking himself.”
complex
“By constantly micromanaging the tasks he delegated to his expert consultants, the CEO ended up buying a dog and barking himself, much to the frustration of his staff.”
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