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Originally Posted by Tdol  I've seen it used to descxribe a very small audience or atendance, but don't know the origin. I suppose the dog gets included for humour/bathos.  |
There's a counting song called
One Man Went to Mow, which I think might have something to do with it - '... three men, two men, one man and his dog, went to mow a meadow':
CBeebies - Tweenies - Song Time; Sing a Song; O; One man went to mow
I've usually heard the expression 'one man and his dog' used to refer to a small business:
We supply all kinds of business - from a multi-national with a payroll of thousands, right down to a one-man-and-his-dog firm operating out of a garden shed with an ad in the parish magazine.
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