Brewer's: Cat-lap

Milk or weak tea, only fit for the cat to lap.

“A more accomplished old woman never drank cat-lap.” —Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Related Content