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What does the saying “flea on the back of a Rottweiler mean”? Why does the speaker use this phrase?

From Khan Academy: The Monroe Doctrine

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they use the phrase to catch readers attention
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Step-by-step explanation:

The Monroe Doctrine means what it has meant since President Monroe and John Quincy Adams enunciated it, and that is that we would oppose a foreign power extending its power to the Western Hemisphere [sic], and that is why we oppose what is happening in Cuba today. That is why we have cut off our trade

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