"Love me, love my dog" nghĩa là gì?

He walks besides you.* Photo courtesy R. Halfpaap.

'Love me, love my dog' = yêu em, yêu cả con cún của em -> nghĩa là yêu em, thì hãy yêu tất cả những gì thuộc về em (said to warn someone that if they want to be in a relationship with you, they must be willing to accept everything about you); yêu ai yêu cả đường đi.

Ví dụ
Off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club producer Lynne Meadow and actress Sarah Jessica Parker understood this play was a little more than “love me — love my dog.” They launched it, with great results, in May 1995. Twenty years later in 2015, Mathew Broderick (married to Parker in real life) starred in it as Greg in the Broadway revival.

A love of dogs is not particular to Chinese. In English, people use the phrase "tired like a dog" to say they are exhausted and say "love me, love my dog" when they hope their partner loves the way they are. Coincidentally, there are phrases expressing these meanings in Chinese, proving again that we are not that different.

St. Bernard of Menthon’s monks (thầy tu) kept and trained enormous dogs to care for lost and imperiled (đẩy vào tình trạng hiểm nghèo, làm cho gặp nguy hiểm) pilgrims (người hành hương) trying to get to Rome. The dogs were trained to flop down on top of the stranded pilgrim to keep them warm with their body heat. The monks even attached little kegs of brandy to the dogs' collars in the mistaken belief that liquor would warm the frozen victims. (actually, the opposite happens.) The dogs came to be called “Saint Bernards.” The saint is always depicted with one of these magnificent, vigilant (cảnh giác, thận trọng) beasts next to him. Though he didn’t coin the phrase, “Love me, love my dog,” he used it once in a homily―and probably pretty often after that―and the phrase got stuck on him.

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“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.”
― Mary Carolyn Davies
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