Every dog has his day. 06-26-2011.

piddle something away

Fig. to waste away money or a period of time. Please don't piddle all your money away. Jane piddled away most of the day.

See also: away

piddle around

Fig. to waste time doing little or nothing. Stop piddling around and get busy. I'm not piddling around. I am experimenting.

See also: around

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Possible interpretation: 1) Even the lowest of us at some time has a chance to get revenge on an oppressor, no matter how powerful that oppressor may be. 2) We will all have good luck or success at some point in our lives.

Origin: The medieval Dutch scholar Erasmus suggests that this saying had its roots in the death of the Greek playwright Euripides. In 405 BC Euripides was killed by dogs set on him by a rival. The proverb was first recorded in the first century by the Greek biographer Plutarch as: "Even a dog gets his revenge." In 1539 Richard Taverner published it in English as: "A dogge hath a day." And in 1670 John Ray's "A Collection of English Proverbs" had it as: "Every dog hath his day."

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