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Brewer's: Cat and Kittens
A public-house sign, alluding to the pewter-pots so called. Stealing these pots is termed “Cat and kitten sneaking.” We still call a large kettle a kitchen, and speak of a soldier's kit (…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.…Brewer's: Cat Proverbs
A cat has nine lives. A cat is more tenacious of life than other animals, because it generally lights upon its feet without injury, the foot and toes being padded so as to break the fall…Brewer's: Cat Stane
Battle stone. A monolith in Scotland (sometimes wrongly called a Druidical stone). The Norwegian term, bauta stein, means the same thing. (Celtic, cath, battle.) Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Cat and Tortoise
or Boar and Sow. Names given to the testudo. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cat has nine LivesCat and Kittens A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…Brewer's: Cat's Cradle
A child's play, with a piece of twine. Corrupt for cratchcradle or manger cradle, in which the infant Saviour was laid. Cratch is the French crèche (a rack or manger), and to the present…Brewer's: Cat's Foot
To live under the cat's foot. To be under petticoat government; to be henpecked. A mouse under the paw of a cat lives but by sufferance and at the cat's pleasure. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Cat's Melody
(The). Squalling. “The children were playing the cat's melody to keep their mother in countenance.” —W. B. Yeats: Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry, p. 238. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Cat's Paw
To be made a cat's paw of, i.e. the tool of another, the medium of doing another's dirty work. The allusion is to the fable of the monkey who wanted to get from the fire some roasted…Brewer's: Cat's Sleep
A sham sleep, like that of a cat watching a mouse. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CatsCat's Paw A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…Trending
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