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dog days

NOUN
  1. the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity

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  • Few opera houses survived the dog days of the 1980s.
  • But the omission of all mention both of 'protrusion' and of the 'dog days' makes the Latin almost without meaning. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • And so it was with me during my "work-cation," when I spent the dog days thinking about how to make better virtual meetings -- the kind of meetings many employees experience when they're working remotely or enjoying a holiday. How To Make Virtual Meetings Better
  • Between the air conditioners, the fans, the humidifiers and all the usual appliances, it's not hard to overload your electrical system during the dog days of August.
  • Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, ascendant during the "dog days" of July and August, "at which time the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius, or Canicula, reigneth with immoderate heate, causing pestilence, drougth, and many diseases The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
  • We especially need space during the dog days of August to unstuff feelings and detoxify emotionally. Aleta St. James: Dog Days of Summer: 'Chosen One' Challenge--Break Through Desperation!
  • During the dog days of summer, there's no finer place to relax than on a carpet of moist, green moss in the cool, shady rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula.
  • In the UK the Digital Economy Bill (#DEBill on Twitterstream) has been rushed through Parliament in the dog days of this Government's term, in a process known as the "washup" - where legislation still waiting to be enacted is rushed through without scrutiny and debate to become law. Broadstuff
  • And, perhaps this story of heat and anger, devotion and bitter hatred is best savoured in our dog days of winter. Times, Sunday Times
  • 14 March, 2008 in assholery, dog days, everyone's a little bit racist Relevant to recent idiocy « Love | Peace | Ohana
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