lap dog
A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable…A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.
» Tom's dog isn't a lap dog.
Значение
значений: 2A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.
Schoßhund, Schoßhündin, Schoßhündchen
ко́мнатная соба́чкаkómnatnaja sobáčka
(переносно)A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover.
Примеры
предложений: 3Tom's dog isn't a lap dog.
People have separation anxiety like lap dogs.
Tom was famously convicted of trying to steal Princess Diana's lap dog on a number of separate occasions.