Brewer's: Green Dogs

Any extinct race, like that of the Dodo. Brederode said to Count Louis: “I would the whole race of bishops and cardinals was extinct, like that of green dogs.” (Motley Dutch Republic, part ii. 5.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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