"keep a dog and bark oneself" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "keeps a dog and barks oneself",
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      "form": "keeping a dog and barking oneself",
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    {
      "form": "kept a dog and barked oneself",
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      "form": "kept a dog and barked oneself",
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          "word": "buy a dog and bark oneself"
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          "ref": "2002, Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, Touchstone, →ISBN, page xxii:",
          "text": "At Potsdam, Attlee was not at all bothered that trade-union leader Ernest Bevin, his new foreign minister, seemed to do all the talking while Attlee sat silent, wreathed in pipe smoke, nodding his head. “You don't keep a dog and bark yourself,” he explained, “and Ernie was a very good dog.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Lucy Delap, Maria DiCenzo, Leila Ryan, Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918:",
          "text": "Men, on the other hand, knowing their privileges safe in well-trained hands, can afford a tolerant attitude. Of what use to keep a dog and bark oneself? But let the dog show the faintest signs of negligence; let his “yap yap” become ever so little fainter, and instantly his alarmed master grasps the whip and prepares for fierce defence of his rights and property.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Margaret Kaine, Ribbon of Moonlight:",
          "text": "I don't see why I should keep a dog and bark myself!” Sadie's voice was so shrill that Polly winced.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of buy a dog and bark oneself"
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    {
      "form": "kept a dog and barked oneself",
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    {
      "form": "kept a dog and barked oneself",
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          "ref": "2002, Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, Touchstone, →ISBN, page xxii:",
          "text": "At Potsdam, Attlee was not at all bothered that trade-union leader Ernest Bevin, his new foreign minister, seemed to do all the talking while Attlee sat silent, wreathed in pipe smoke, nodding his head. “You don't keep a dog and bark yourself,” he explained, “and Ernie was a very good dog.”",
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          "text": "Men, on the other hand, knowing their privileges safe in well-trained hands, can afford a tolerant attitude. Of what use to keep a dog and bark oneself? But let the dog show the faintest signs of negligence; let his “yap yap” become ever so little fainter, and instantly his alarmed master grasps the whip and prepares for fierce defence of his rights and property.",
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