A doggone fun night of puttin’ on the dog

“Do you know the meanings of these old sayings.” — Question posed on a website that researches the origins of old sayings. “You should have seen him; he was puttin’ on the dog Saturday night.” Time-worn old sayings often convey precise meaning better than the best of scholarly English. So that expression about a social function last week needed no further explanation for me to understand. The…