"have a dog in this race" meaning in Anglais

See have a dog in this race in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: have a dog in this fight
  1. Avoir un intérêt quelconque dans cette affaire. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: fr-have_a_dog_in_this_race-en-verb-r~4aaiML Categories (other): Métaphores en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions verbales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "→ voir have, dog et race, littéralement « avoir un chien dans cette course »."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "have a dog in this fight"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Locution verbale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Métaphores en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Avoir un intérêt quelconque dans cette affaire."
      ],
      "id": "fr-have_a_dog_in_this_race-en-verb-r~4aaiML",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have a dog in this race"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Locutions verbales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "→ voir have, dog et race, littéralement « avoir un chien dans cette course »."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "have a dog in this fight"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Locution verbale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Métaphores en anglais"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Avoir un intérêt quelconque dans cette affaire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have a dog in this race"
}

Download raw JSONL data for have a dog in this race meaning in Anglais (0.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Anglais dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-31 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.