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Idioms about cats

Posted by Bob on August 13, 2005

In Reply to: Idioms about cats posted by Victoria S Dennis on August 13, 2005

: : : : Hi!
: : : : I`m writing you from Russia. Please, could you say me some English idioms about cats! I need it for my child`s English lessons.
: : : : Thank you!

: : : If you go back one page and type "cats" in the Google Search box, you'll find 304 possible answers.

: : Like "curiosity killed the cat" -- www.phrases.org.uk bulletin_board 42 messages 626.html

: It sounds stupid to have to say this, but most of the hundreds of English idioms about cats really are about real feline cats. You'll come across many confident assertions that "no room to swing a cat" is about flogging with a cat o'nine tails, that "more than one way to skin a cat" is about skinning catfish, and so on and so forth. These "explanations" are simply not true. Those sayings are about real live furry cats!

I'm glad you said that. People (especially cat owners?) are understandably squeamish about the cruel indifference exemplified by your two examples, and they may be the ones who make up the alternate explanations thinking no one could possibly think ill of little tabby.

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