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The origin of the phrase is not clear, however it is not necessarily British, the phrase seems to come from the Appalachian Mountain region

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How did the feet get to be called dogs?

Possibly it comes from an old English phrase, "My dogs are barking" which refers to feet that hurt. It possibly came from rhyming slang in Yorkshire, England a couple hundred years ago. Reducing the phrase and using just "dogs" is common usage.


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