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I've just watched the film Straw Dogs. Does anybody know why it's called Straw Dogs?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I've just found another explanation. The phrase 'straw dogs' occurs in Lao-tzu's writings from around 500 B.C. according to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (16th Ed.):
Heaven and Earth are not humane.
They regard all things as straw dogs.
Bartlett's contains this footnote referencing the phrase--"Straw dogs were used in sacrifices and then discarded."