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What does the idiom dog-tired mean?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

It means a person is extremely tired or totally drained.

Ex: All that yard work today, in the hot sun, has me dog-tired!

Derived from the fact that dogs are always panting, with thier tongues out, as if they were really tired.

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