Examples of using "Manger" in a sentence and their japanese translations:
A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like a dog in the manger 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。
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。
Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.