He is an ill-natured man―a crab―(人の邪魔をしてなら)―a doginthemanger.
あの人は意地悪だ - 斎藤和英大辞典
He is “a doginthe manger.”
金の番人だ、金の持ち腐りだ - 斎藤和英大辞典
He is ill-natured―spiteful―cantankerous―cross-grained―crabbed―a crab 【イディオム・格言的には:】“a doginthe manger.”
意地が悪い(意地悪) - 斎藤和英大辞典
For such man to possess wealth is being “a doginthe manger”
あんな人に金を持たせるのは宝の持ち腐れだ - 斎藤和英大辞典
A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like adoginthemanger even with his friends. 嫉妬深い人は、友達にすら、意地悪をして、満足感を得る。 - Tatoeba例文
A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like adoginthemanger even with his friends.
嫉妬深い人は、友達にすら、意地悪をして、満足感を得る。 - Tanaka Corpus
The seventy-year-old man kept his twenty-year-old wife at home all the time; he had a dog-in-the-manger attitude. 70才の老人は20才の妻をつねに家において離さなかった。その老人は底意地が悪かった。 - Tatoeba例文
The seventy year old man kept his twenty year old wife at home all the time; he had adoginthemanger attitude.
70才の老人は20才の妻をつねに家において離さなかった。その老人は底意地が悪かった。 - Tanaka Corpus
Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was adoginthemanger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come. 女房が映画に行きたがっていることがよくわかったので、いじわるな亭主は一計を案じ、くるあてもない来客を家で待つことにした。 - Tatoeba例文
Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was adoginthemanger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
女房が映画に行きたがっていることがよくわかったので、いじわるな亭主は一計を案じ、くるあてもない来客を家で待つことにした。 - Tanaka Corpus