Originally Posted by
YmoBeThere
FWIW, dog fighting is illegal in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. It is an outdated phrase much like removing layers of a cat. Hopefully we can advance our conversations beyond these outmoded phraseologies.
In the South, people most often say they "don't have a dog in this hunt." I don't have any problem whatsoever with this particular idiom.
Quick tangential question: If you don't like "more than one way to skin a cat," are you also equally displeased with "kill two birds with one stone?" Just curious.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust