So where did the saying “Every dog has it’s day” or “Every dog has his day” come from? I did some research and found the phrase is over 450 years old. It became popularized from Hamlet by William Shakespeare in the early 1600’s. However, there are various forms of it that originated earlier.
The meaning of the quote in our current era, “Every dog has its day or every dog has his day” is very simple. It means everyone gets a chance eventually; or that everyone is successful during some period in their life. (Example: Don’t worry, you’ll get chosen for the team. Every dog has its day. You may become famous someday. Every dog has his day.) This is from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
Here is a brief history on the famous quote we recite today:
A dogge hath a day.[1545 R. Taverner…
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