44, yes, have seen The Maltese Falcon, have read Aesop, have read The Maltese Falcon.
Fifty. Know it well. Used it last week. Had to explane it. He is Twenty-three.
I remember reading them in primary school. Then again - in Latin - in high school.
I’m 27. I learned this phrase in a vocabulary lesson in high school that included phrases like “Hobson’s choice”, which I didn’t know, and things I (and I expect most people) did like “fifth column”.
I’m 39, and I don’t remember it from the fables. I can’t believe I’m admitting this, but I remember asking what it meant when I was a teenager, after seeing it used in “Mistral’s Daughter.”
Know it because I grew up with Aesop’s fables, though I refer to it as ‘the dog and the hay.’ I hate that damn dog, and I’ve met many like him.
I had a book of Aesop’s Fables, but no, I don’t know it.
Your age.
Twicks, now I’m really curious about the situation/person you were describing with the phrase “a dog in a manger.”
- I know what it means and I’ve seen The Maltese Falcon.
My 28-year-old co-worker has seen the movie, but did not now the fable.
ETA: he said that when he was in school, they learned Anansi fables (which I had never heard of) rather Aesop’s.
The art director needed some particular photos. The person who had taken those photos had them on his computer. I walked past as they were discussing why the photos were on the second person’s computer and not the server, and (jokingly) accused that person of being a dog in the manger with them. They both stopped and stared at me in utter incomprehension.
Honestly, I’m astonished that this is coming across as an obscure referenece. Should I assume that not everyone who can correctly use the phrase “sour grapes” would be able to tell the fable whence it came?
I know the phrase, but I did not realize it was from Aesop’s until I just looked it up. I am much better versed in mythology & faerie tales then fables.
Jim
I’m 30, have seen The Maltese Falcon, and read Aesop’s Fables as a kid. I also know the term “sour grapes” and the fable whence it comes.
I have no idea what a dog in the manger is.
30, and though I’ve heard it once or twice looking it up right now confirms that it doesn’t fit my vague guess as to what it means. Wrong manger, so out of place/in the wrong place isn’t it.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen The Maltese Falcon, but I am familiar with the sour grapes fable.
47, known it well since before turning 11. Someone who spitefully refuses to hand over something that is no use to them to someone who urgently needs it. Bless the Children’s Encyclopædia.
I only know a couple of Aesop’s Fables, and it doesn’t include this one, but I don’t think fables and fairy tales and parables have ever taught me anything anyway. I tend to only tune into their story aspect, and not any morals they’re teaching.
I am 38.
I am 46 and was fond of the fables growing up.
Know it, 22. I barely heard of The Maltese Falcon, however, but then I don’t watch many films.
I am (seriously!) concerned that two of the three underlings who had never heard the expression are parents of small children, so I stopped at two different bookstores on the way home.This is the one I’m getting for said small children.
I just added this book of Aesop’s Fable to my Amazon wish list, it is one I would like. 
(Leaving out the editions that are complete, of course.)
For me, I think I’d also like that one, which I looked at yesterday – and which is gorgeous. For kids, though, I liked the tone of the text of the one I picked.