Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
The seventy-year-old man kept his twenty-year-old wife at home all the time; he had a dog-in-the-manger attitude.
A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like a dog in the manger even with his friends.