hard dog to keep on the porch
n.— «The second…has to do with Clinton’s sexual appetite.…The Governor was, in the words of a local saying, a hard dog to keep on the porch.» —“Bill Clinton’s Presidency” by Christopher Hitchens London Review of Books: An Anthology Dec., 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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