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try it on the dog en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (colloquial) To try something (especially a theatrical play) on a less important audience to gauge the likelihood of success before committing to general release or approval.
    • They had feared to make the venture with it at the California theatre in San Francisco where they had been favorites, so they brought it to Salt Lake to "try it on the dog." 1905, John Shanks Lindsay, The Mormons and the Theatre, page 129:

Forms

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tries it on the dog Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
trying it on the dog Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tried it on the dog Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tried it on the dog Tense=Past lexicographic
try it out on the dog alternative lexicographic

Relateds

dog town