Re: Cat got your tongue
Posted by ESC on February 25, 2000 In Reply to: Cat got your tongue posted
by Frankie on February 25, 2000
: I know when someone can't or won't speak someone would say:
"What's the matter?" "Cat got your tongue"?
: Where did this come from!?
"Has the cat got your tongue? Why don't you speak? Your silence
is suspicious. The saying originated in the mid-nineteenth century
and was used when addressing a child who refused to answer a parent's
questions after some mischief..." From "Random House Dictionary
of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titleman (Random
House, New York, 1996).
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