lap dog

1. 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.

   Schoßhund, Schoßhündin, Schoßhündchen

   ко́мнатная соба́чкаkómnatnaja sobáčka

2. (figuratively)A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover.

1. Tom's dog isn't a lap dog.

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2. People have separation anxiety like lap dogs.

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3. Tom was famously convicted of trying to steal Princess Diana's lap dog on a number of separate occasions.

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