keep a dog and bark (oneself)

To hire or pay someone who is ostensibly responsible for some amount of work, but then do or oversee most or all of that work oneself. Why are you paying a copy editor when you end up disregarding all of their changes anyway? Why keep a dog and bark yourself? Cleaning your bathroom when you have a cleaning service is like keeping a dog and barking yourself.

keep a dog and bark yourself

pay someone to work for you and then do the work yourself.

1991 Purchasing and Supply Management He does not solve the subcontractor's technical problems, keeping a dog and barking himself.

词组	keep a dog and bark (oneself)
释义	keep a dog and bark (oneself) keep a dog and bark (oneself) To hire or pay someone who is ostensibly responsible for some amount of work, but then do or oversee most or all of that work oneself. Why are you paying a copy editor when you end up disregarding all of their changes anyway? Why keep a dog and bark yourself? Cleaning your bathroom when you have a cleaning service is like keeping a dog and barking yourself. See also: and, bark, dog, keep Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. keep a dog and bark yourself pay someone to work for you and then do the work yourself. 1991 Purchasing and Supply Management He does not solve the subcontractor's technical problems, keeping a dog and barking himself. See also: and, bark, dog, keep Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: keep a dog and bark yourself go shares get in (someone's) good books pile on the work pile the work on have truck with be at work be your own master/mistress be (one's) own master mistress
随便看	in front of (one's) nose in front of (one's) very eyes in front of (someone or something) in full in full cry in full feather in full fig in full flight in full flood in full flow have it coming to you have it easy have it going on have it in for have it in for somebody have it in for (someone) have it in for someone have it in for, to have it in mind to do something have it in (one) have it in one have it in one to do have it in (one) to (do something) have it in you have it in you to do something