wag the dog
anglicism recorded since 04/06/2021
Frequency
Calculated from occurrences since 2020.
2
total occurrences
0.002
per million, total
0.005
per million, last year
0.000
per million, last month
Recorded forms
Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.
wag the dog (2)
Frequency over time
Occurrences per million words, by week.
By outlet
Where it is used most.
By section
What kind of news it appears in.
Contexts of use
2 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).
| Form ⇅ | Context | Outlet ⇅ | Section ⇅ | Date ↑ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wag the dog | vicepresidenta para más 'inri' constitucionalista. Esto no se sortea mediante un 'wag the dog'. Hay asuntos en los que es obligado el coraje, o debería serlo | El País | Spain | 04/06/2021 |
| wag the dog | Lo que se llama , curiosamente en inglés , un « wag the dog »' de libro , o lo que en castellano es una cortina de humo del nivel del perdido esmog de Londres o de la boina del bocho de Bilbao . | ABC | Culture | 13/08/2025 |