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Proverb
it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
- (rare or obsolete) If a person is determined to punish or blame someone, they will find a way or a reason to do so.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :The ancient Prouerbe will be well effected,
A Staffe is quickly found to beat a Dogge.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book v:For all this, however, poor Tom smarted in the flesh; for though Thwackum had been inhibited to exercise his arm on the foregoing account, yet, as the proverb says, It is easy to find a stick, &c. So was it easy to find a rod; and, indeed, the not being able to find one was the only thing which could have kept Thwackum any long time from chastising poor Jones.
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