wag
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To paraphrase some anonymous wag, never let a cross-cultural calamity go to waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
But strict rules also make the financial tail wag the real economy dog.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
You can’t wag your finger at people and say, “You should be going to the theater and having this theatrical experience,” but you feel it rising right now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
“I tell clients, ‘Don’t let the tax tail wag the dog.’”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
“If that free takes a notion to fall, it’ll mash you flatter than a tadpole’s tail.” look on his friendly face, he gave me a hurry- up signal with a wag of his tail.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
Kabawat exclaims in approval as another, Ghufran, wags her finger for emphasis: "We either occupy a space where we hold all the decision-making power, or we don't want to be in that space at all."
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
Wall Street wags say bigger investment managers will do worse, but Blackstone’s 2025 investment performance was pretty good.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Instead, he posted “Unconditional Surrender” on Truth Social, without any explanation of what that meant, leading some wags in Washington to hope he had just resigned.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2025
This dual audience for the written word—readers and advertisers—has survived in digital media, and as with silly summer inserts, it’s often the tail of advertising that wags the dog of text.
From Slate ● May 21, 2025
“Yeah, but, you know, I still don’t really get the idea of why words all mean different things. Like, who says that d-o-g means the thing that goes ‘woof’ and wags its tail?
From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
An initially withdrawn Teddy howled and wagged her tail upon seeing her owner, according to shelter officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
After striking Caballero out, Cole wagged his finger at him while walking off the mound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Dr Williams said Pumpkin, despite everything, still "wagged his tail" when he saw her.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024
Kodi the griffon mix, who plays Cosmos in the Swiss comedy-drama, narrowly beat Xin, a sighthound who instead wagged away with the Grand Jury Prize for the Chinese drama “Black Dog.”
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
As he worked he whistled and wagged his head.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The Pomeranian munchkins in Munchkinland skitter around, sniffing wagging butts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
If a leveraged fund grows large enough, it can start to have a significant impact on the underlying stock to which it is tied, a phenomenon traders refer to as “the tail wagging the dog.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
In a sense, it is like the tail wagging the dog.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
"She just came straight out, straight over to me, wagging her tail."
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Old Tallow’s legs stuck out like poles, tattered makazins flapped on her wagging feet as she drew impatiently upon her pipe.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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