Why we say Dog Eat Dog

Why we say Dog Eat Dog

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines “dog-eat-dog” as “a situation in which people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed.” It comes from the Latin idiom canis caninam non est, which translates into English as “a dog does not eat dog’s flesh.” The ancient Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro included the phrase in his seminal work, De Lingua Latina (On the Latin Language). In the Latin usage, the intended meaning was that even…