dog does not eat dog

Covering up for each other as usual-'dog does not eat dog', their sole code of ethics.

"Be not afraid," chuckled John Grimmer, "for though I am a knave, dog does not eat dog and what is yours is safe with me and those who serve me.

Each other they did not eat, because dog does not eat dog, and therefore they were beginning to grow hungry, although they had plenty of grain and cattle of which they used the milk and hides.

The comparatively puny damages of £1,000 (the cost of a dozen bottles of champagne at the expensive nightclub where the affair had begun) and the public ridicule suffered by all parties may serve to remind editors of the wisdom of the adage that "dog does not eat dog in Fleet Street".