Dog and DuckA public-house sign, to announce that ducks were hunted by dogs within. The sport was to see the duck dive, and the dog after it. At Lambeth there was a famous pleasure-resort so called, on the spot where Bethlehem Hospital now stands. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Dog and Duck from Infoplease:
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