Donna Brazile

In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant.

American Politician

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

The nice thing about dogs is you can sit them down, you could have a nice long conversation, you could be cross, you could be sad, and they just sit looking at you wagging their tail!

British Royalty

Jonathan Ive

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

English Designer

Boris Johnson

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.

British Politician

Ken Berry

I never had a hobby in my whole life until I wag 35. Then I discovered motorcycles, and they've now become almost a passion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

British Historian

Kinky Friedman

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

American Singer

Danny K. Davis

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

Josh Billings

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

American Comedian

W. H. Auden

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

English Poet

Wagging often shows a dog's happiness or friendly attitude.

Positive Emotion

While tail-wagging is common, 'wag' can describe other quick side-to-side movements.

Not Only Tails

Sometimes 'wag' is used figuratively to suggest movement like a wagging tail.

Metaphorical Use

While common with dogs, 'wag' can describe any similar motion, regardless of what's wagging.

Beyond Dogs

A wag can convey an animal's or object's emotion or state, not just physical motion.

Emotive Movement

'Wag' as skipping school is informal and mainly used in Australian English.

Slang Meaning

Using 'wag' to mean skipping school can imply gentle disapproval or triviality.

Subtle Disapproval

Calling someone a 'wag' suggests mischief but with a light-hearted tone.

Affectionate Teasing

The term 'wag' is rarely used seriously or offensively; it implies fondness.

Not Offensive

 Instead of wagging their paddles back and forth, they wind them like a cork screw. Just as a cork screw on a wine bottle converts winding motion into forward motion, these tiny creatures spin their helical tails to push themselves forward in a world where water feels as thick as cork.

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 kind of cower over their plates and and try to hide their french fries but don't worry about it that's not what I do I don't believe in wagging my finger and telling you what you should eat and what you shouldn't eat and quite frankly I eat more french fries than most of you

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 a great philosophical wag, when I said to him, "Professor Morgenbesser, why is there something rather than nothing?" And he said, "Oh, even if there was nothing, you still wouldn't be satisfied." So — — okay. So you're not astonished. I don't care.

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 a female job in rhino with her male calf walking through the rain forest and munching on leaves at one point the calf turns away and wags its tail possibly to swat a fly WWF points out that the job in rhino is one of the world's rarest

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 let's see let's go live but further and see if their behavior changes we obviously don't want to influence their behavior so by watching them feed gently like that two tails are wagging they're very relaxed so edge the car

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 happy to be around and mum sets even wagging his tail her happy hyenas cuteness overload just smelling absolutely everything when we came into the sighting we came in where are they where they're walking now and I said I

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 like perhaps a martin their tails are not prehensile but they seem to use them as a help in keeping their balance and they also wagged them when they were annoyed or excited

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 sneak off or wagging tail and carry on on her nocturnal feeding now we are in infrared and that's why the picture is coming out in black and white are we

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 Ceaser's happy 'cause his tail's wagging. We did this whole "try to get him to play" thing. Oh, here he goes. He'll do it again now.

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 oh caesar's happy because his tail is wagging he did these whole trying to get him to play thing oh here he goes

Wag

Positive Emotion

Not Only Tails

Metaphorical Use

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