dog's life

A miserably unhappy existence, as in He's been leading a dog's life since his wife left him. This expression was first recorded in a 16th-century manuscript and alludes to the miserable subservient existence of dogs during this era. By the 1660s there was a proverb: "It's a dog's life, hunger and ease."

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Marketta	MAHR-ket-tah	Finnish
Sameer (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati
GiosuÈ	jo-ZWE	Italian
Snow	[snəu]
Isabel	['izəbel]
EdvÁRd	-	Hungarian