live a dog's life
live a dog's life
To lead a life that is difficult, unpleasant, or boring. My poor dad lived a dog's life to provide for his kids, but we just wrote him off as a boring old nobody. I've had to live a dog's life since college just to make ends meet.
See also: life, live
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- lead a dog's life
- dog's life
- a dog's life
- burg
- a one-horse town
- one-horse town
- extreme
- boring in the extreme
- be heavy going