TO HELP A LAME DOG OVER A STILE, verb. phr. (common).—To give a hand; to help; TO BUNK UP (q.v.). Fr. sauver la mise à quelqu’un.
1605. MARSTON, The Insatiate Countesse, ii. 2. Here’s a stile so high as a man cannot HELP A DOG OVER IT.
1670. RAY, Proverbs [BOHN (1893), 168]. Help the LAME DOG OVER THE STILE.
