In the daily speech the people quite often use strange expressions which if literally to perceive sense, cannot belong to the events in any way, and especially to characterize it. For example, "to blame" - in sense to accuse of all sins.
The phrase "blame" which became habitual means insubstantial accusation, injustice. If properly to think there is a question as there could be so strange expression connected with it would seem so peaceful and good-natured creation as a dog.
Traditional versions
According to traditional explanations, the dog contacts something annoying, accidentally stuck to the person or to his clothes, for example, a burdock which since ancient times is considered a symbol of the evil, damage, trouble.
By the way, the burdock was imperceptibly hung up on clothes of the enemy or ill-wisher. To hang up a dog - means to send damage, to doom to failure an object of the hatred.
The dog in this case is used as something allegoric, even today expression "to seize as the dog" means to stick strong so that no force could tear off.
However, the version according to which hanging of dogs is connected with old times tradition of knightly times which obliged to load with a body of a dead dog of the dishonored knight or representative of notable estate and to force it to run from crowd of mockers and gapers, also it seems rather plausible and has quite deserved right to life and a zdravstovovaniye.
Translations and values
It is interesting that in the Arab language word a dog it was accepted to designate the favourite, in combination with a dog something similar gives the horse who came to finishing line before the others or simply overtaking, "вишайт" that in translation means slander to us on our word slander, or a slander. Dogs, especially hungry and not having the owner, since ancient times are considered as beings dangerous and blood-thirsty. Having gathered in packs, they bear quite serious danger to the surrounding people and animals who happened them on the way. Perhaps, the point of expression "to blame" lies on the surface and consists in property of mongrels to attack without warning and to seize production strong just as the hunter seizes a body of the victim.
To hang similar creatures means to make meanness, to drive the person into a corner, without providing it any chance of rehabilitation or justification at all.
It is possible to guess over the meaning of this well-known phrase for a long time, to think out various versions or to address the most famous explanatory dictionaries and opinions of authoritative linguists, anyway, the point of expression is simple, clear, and, above all captures the essence of the issue of false charge.