give a dog a bad name

There is an old saying: "Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him."

It seems to me very much a case of 'Give a dog a bad name.'

"Give a dog a bad name and hang him."

But give a dog a bad name.

Give a dog a bad name--you know the saw.

"Give a Dog a Bad Name" (16 March 1971)

Always there was the heavy emphasis on his disobeying orders, but it seemed more a question of 'give a dog a bad name' because the orders were always carried out.

Original plays from the pen of Lewis are: "The Wandering Jew" (Adelphi Theatre, April 14, 1873); "Give a Dog a Bad Name" (ib.

You will say that it is not a case of giving a dog a bad name--I know that it is not decent to be speaking like this with my wife dead only a few days, and murdered at that."