Dog related idioms

How is it?

It's Patchy.

See http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/dog

Not a teacher.

As dry as a dead dingo's donger (for AusE)

What does it mean?

The chart is just OK. I question the definition for "hair of the dog". The usual meaning is to have a drink of liquor (not a prescribed remedy) to treat the hangover symptoms. Also, I would not call "do the doggy paddle" an idiom.

Matthew provided a great link with many dog idioms. Here a couple others:

That dog don't/won't hunt. This said about an idea/plan/project that is destined to fail.
I have no dog in the race/fight. This means the speaker has no personal interest in the matter.

Why did you write "that dog don't..." instead of "doesn't"? I'm confused.

That's the way I've always heard it. Not every idiom is expressed in grammatical English.

Boris Tatarenko said:

Why did you write "that dog don't..." instead of "doesn't"? I'm confused.

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This is a colloquial usage. One would hear it quite a bit in the southern US states.