| 单词 | to eat the dog food |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat the dog food P1. slang (chiefly Marketing). will the dogs eat the dog food? and variants: used to question whether consumers will accept or use a product or service. Hence to eat the dog food and variants: to accept something offered or advocated by another. ΚΠ 1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 19 Feb. 10/1 ‘There are no limits to what we can do technically,’ Mr. Light says. ‘The real question is whether the dog will eat the dog food.’ 1996 InfoWorld 4 Nov. tw3/2 Our product is very strong, but honestly we aren't sure how people will accept it—we aren't sure if the dogs will eat the dog food. 2002 BusinessWeek 21 Jan. 72/2 So it's not surprising that Microsoft is confident it will win in the home. ‘A lot of this stuff isn't a question of, “Will the dogs eat the dog food?” It's “When?”’ 2008 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 5 Feb. (Suburban Life & Entertainm. section) 1 Republican voters aren't going to eat that dog food. They just don't like the way it tastes. 2014 M. B. Timmons et al. Entrepreneurial Engineer iv. 96 As you go forward, you will need to document if customers will, in essence, eat your dog food. < as lemmas |
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