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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…Brewer's: Froude's Cat
This cat wanted to know what was good for life, and everyone gave her queer answers. The owl said, “Meditate, O cat;” and so she tried to think which could have come first, the fowl or the…Brewer's: Kilkenny Cats
(See Cat Proverbs.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894KillKilkenny 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…Brewer's: Kit Cats
Mutton pies; so called from Christopher Cat, the pastrycook, who excelled in these pasties. (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Kit's Coty HouseKit…Brewer's: Raphael of Cats
(The). Godefroi Mind, a Swiss painter, noted for his cats. (1768-1814.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RappareeRaphael A B C D E F G H I J K L M…Brewer's: Tame Cat
(A). A harmless dangler after a married woman; a cavalier servant; a cicisbeo. “He soon installed himself as a taine cat in the MacMungo mansion.” —Truth (Queer Story), October, 1885.…Trending
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