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Time for tough love or Australia will go to the dogs

29 July 2024

2:00 AM

29 July 2024

2:00 AM

From Thimphu, Bhutan: To ‘go to the dogs’ is an idiom that means an organisation or a country is ‘deteriorating shockingly’. Apparently it originates from the 16th Century and refers to criminals or outcasts expelled from cities who lived among the rubbish – and the dogs.

Bhutan is a beautiful country full of spiritual, generous, and beautiful people.

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