So we didn't even have a dog in the fight this time.

He doesn't have a dog in the fight anymore, or something like that.

It is always easier to be critical when you don't have a dog in the fight, so let's go ahead.

And for the first time this century, Crawford doesn't have a dog in the fight.

He stated, "I miss not having a dog in the fight."

Neither man is seen as having a dog in the fight, so to speak, regarding a deal on the fiscal cliff.

"The deputy is the messenger; he doesn't have a dog in the fight.

Many of those supposedly objective journalist dads who write about day-care studies also have a dog in the fight.

"We have a dog in the fight."

If you believe that the answer to bad speech is more speech - not censorship - then you have a dog in the fight.

He added the archdiocese "has a dog in the fight" and has to protect itself, he added.

Most of all, I have missed having a dog in the fight each season, especially at the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs."

What an unhappy irony to hear Dave sounding just like that grubby old executive, regardless of whether he had a dog in the fight or a shoe on the other foot.

GREENWICH, Connecticut (CNN) -- What's great about the campaign now is that I don't have a dog in the fight.

Yes, he has a dog in the fight, with a financial interest in turmeric-containing products, which have, he strongly claims, benefits ranging from fighting Alzheimers, to breast cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis and psoriasis.

But Juneau responded on Wednesday: "I was invited by a state official to educate people in the north as a court official - I don't have a dog in the fight."

"One of the great things about the task force is it's never had a dog in the fight," said Kevin Patrick, editor in chief of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Those that are the closest to him, those that have a dog in the fight, so to speak, which our fans do - a lot of other people are rooting for Dez, too - it's a consensus that he's making great strides.

Yet it was precisely because the British people did not – as the US Secretary of State James Baker used to put it – have a dog in the fight, that the highly successful Kosovo campaign made no political impact at home.

Additionally, it's not just Microsoft and Apple battling it out, Google also have a dog in the fight in the form of Google Docs and Drive (though they have so far pushed these products more on their internet-only Chromebook range than their tablets).

Despite his own admission that he doesn't have a dog in the fight, Letterman has delighted in using Jay for target practice, telling his audience, "I'm telling jokes and making fun of Jay Leno relentlessly, mercilessly, simply for one reason: I'm really enjoying it."

If you must have a dog in the fight, find one like the Munsterman.

They are not people who have a dog in the fight: they respond not to politics but to the bottom line.