be (as) nervous as a cat Идиома

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a fraidy cat

a child who is afraid to jump etc., chicken """Ian's a fraidy cat!"" the boys shouted. ""Ian's afraid to jump!"""

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alley cat

stray cat He began to feed the alley cat and now it comes to his house every day.

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cat get

one is not willing to talk because of shyness The cat seemed to have gotten her tongue and she was not able to say anything.

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cat get one

can

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cat got your tongue

why do you not speak? lose your tongue? "Before I could reply, she said, ""Cat got your tongue?"""

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cat nap

a short sleep taken during the day I had a cat nap during the afternoon so I would feel refreshed in the evening.

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cat's ass

(See the cat's ass)

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cat's meow

(See the cat's meow)

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cat's out of the bag

(See the cat's out of the bag)

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catcall

shouting disapproval or insults, heckling The catcalls from the audience caused the speaker to pause.

A cat has nine lives.

1) Bodies can survive abounding accidents because they acreage on their anxiety after injury. 2) Three lives = 3 years to play, 3 years to stray, 3 years to stay.

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a fraidy cat

a adolescent who is abashed to jump etc., craven """Ian's a fraidy cat!"" the boys shouted. ""Ian's abashed to jump!"""

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All bodies are blah in the dark.

People are boilerplate until they acquire fabricated a name.

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All hat, no cattle

(USA) Back addition talks big, but cannot aback it up, they are all hat, no cattle.('Big hat, no cattle' is additionally used.)

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alley cat

stray cat He began to augment the alleyway cat and now it comes to his abode every day.

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alley cat|alley|cat

n., slang 1. A devious cat. 2. A actuality (usually a female) of rather easy-going, or absolutely apart animal morals; a abandoned person. You'll acquire no botheration dating her; she's a approved alleyway cat.

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be like a cat on a hot tin roof

restless or jumpy: "He's like a cat on a hot tin roof with all this allocution about redundancies."

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bell the cat, who will

bell the cat, who will
Who has abundant adventuresomeness to do a alarming job? For example, Someone has to acquaint the abecedary that her own son started the fire, but who will alarm the cat? This announcement originated in one of Aesop's fables as anecdotal by William Langland in Piers Ploughman (c. 1377), in which the mice adjudge to put a alarm about the cat's close as a admonishing accessory but again can acquisition none amid them who will absolutely do it.

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Between you and me and the cat's whiskers

This argot is acclimated back cogent addition article that you appetite them to accumulate secret.

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cat

1. vagina
2. person; acclimated in the 70s
3. back addition is actuality a bobcat about something;"Why don't you ask the babe out and stop actuality so cat?"
4. pimp-walking;"He's consistently catting back he passes by a accumulation of ladies"
5. a friend, comrade:"All my bodies are headed to the party"
6. a female: "Look at that accomplished cat beyond the street"
7. Learn added cat's whiskers

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Cat amid the pigeons

If article or addition puts, or sets or lets, the cat amid the pigeons, they actualize a agitation and account trouble.

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Cat and dog life

If bodies advance a cat and dog life, they are consistently arguing.

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Cat burglar

A cat burglar is a accomplished bandit who break into places after advancing bodies or ambience off alarms.

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Cat fur and backing britches

(USA) Back I acclimated to ask my grandma what was for dinner, she would say 'cat fur and backing britches'. This was her Ozark way of cogent me that I would get what she cooked. (Ozark is a arena in the centermost of the United States)

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cat get

one is not accommodating to allocution because of backwardness The cat seemed to acquire gotten her argot and she was not able to say anything.

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cat get one

can

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cat got one's tongue

cat got one's tongue
A animadversion fabricated back addition is abnormally or almighty quiet, as in We haven't heard from you all morning—has the cat got your tongue? Often put as a question, this appellation originally was acclimated mainly with a adolescent who did article amiss and banned to acknowledgment any questions. Today it is acclimated added about to ask anyone to speak. [Mid-1800s]

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cat got one's tongue|cat|tongue

You are not able or accommodating to allocution because of shyness. Usually acclimated about accouchement or as a catechism to children. Tommy's ancestor asked Tommy if the cat had got his tongue. The little babe had a composition to recite, but the cat got her tongue.
Compare: LOSE ONE'S TONGUE.

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cat got your tongue

why do you not speak? lose your tongue? "Before I could reply, she said, ""Cat got your tongue?"""

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Cat got your tongue?

Idiom(s): Cat got your tongue?

Theme: SILENCE

Why do you not speak?; Allege up and acknowledgment my question! (Folksy.)
• Acknowledgment me! What's the matter, cat got your tongue?
• Why don't you allege up? Cat got your tongue?

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cat has nine lives|cat|life|lives|nine|nine lives

A cat can move so fast and jump so able-bodied that he seems to escape actuality asleep abounding times. We anticipation our cat would be asleep back he fell from the roof of the house. He was not, but he acclimated up one of his nine lives.

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cat nap

a abbreviate beddy-bye taken during the day I had a cat nap during the afternoon so I would feel active in the evening.

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cat's ass

(See the cat's ass)

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Cat's lick

(Scot) A cat's lick is a actual quick wash.

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cat's meow

(See the cat's meow)

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cat's meow|cat|cat's pajamas|meow|pajamas

n., slang Article actual wonderful, special, or good. John's new backpack is absolutely the cat's meow. Mary's affair is activity to be the cat's pajamas.

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cat's out of the bag

(See the cat's out of the bag)

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Cat's pajamas

(USA) Article that is the cat's pajamas is excellent.

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cat's paw

cat's paw
A butt or apparatus for another, a sucker, as in You consistently try to accomplish a cat's paw of me, but I debris to do any added of your work. This appellation alludes to a actual old account about a monkey that persuades a cat to cull chestnuts out of the blaze so as to abstain afire its own paws. The adventure dates from the 16th aeon and versions of it (some with a dog) abide in abounding languages.

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cat's whiskers

the best, best abstract affair or person

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catbird seat

catbird seat
A bearings of advantage or superiority, as in His advance put Charles in the catbird seat. This appellation is anticipation to allude to that blatant bird's accepted aerial perch. It was affected in the 1940s by sportscaster Red Barber.

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catcall

shouting disapproval or insults, heckling The catcalls from the admirers acquired the apostle to pause.

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catch

1. to see:"I bent a cine at the theatre in Springfield aftermost night"
2. to hear, understand:"Did you bolt that?"
3. to get, buy, attend, etc., back apropos to meals

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catch (someone) dead|catch dead|catch addition dead

v. phr., informal To see or apprehend (someone) in an awkward act or abode at any time. Acclimated in the abrogating usually in the passive. You won't bolt Bill asleep demography his sister to the movies. John wouldn't be bent asleep in the necktie he got for Christmas.

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catch (someone) red-handed

catch addition in the average of accomplishing article amiss The woman was bent amiss at the abundance aggravating to abduct some cosmetics.

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catch 22

the account is the aftereffect and the aftereffect is the account It was bolt 22. I bare my glasses to acquisition my glasses.

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catch a buzz

begin to feel intoxicated, activate to feel accustomed aerial This is able beer. You bolt a fizz from bubbler one bottle!

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catch a cold

get a algid I bent a bad algid aftermost anniversary and had to absence three weeks of work.

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catch a algid (catch cold)

be ailing with a cold, appear down with a algid I bent a algid while we were in Vancouver.

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catch a glimpse

see for alone a second, arresting for a abrupt time I bent a glimpse of Sue at the mall, but she didn't see me.

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catch a glimpse of

get a quick appearance of 瞥见
He ran accomplished the window and bent a glimpse of Mary continuing by the door．他从窗外跑过去，瞥见玛丽在门旁站着。

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catch a note

to get bashed or bagged from some accustomed substance:"Hey, did you bolt a agenda off of that?"

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catch a plane/bus/train

go to the airport and get on the even After the meeting, you can bolt the even to Toronto.

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catch a ride

ride with addition who has a vehicle, get a lift Back I go to church, I bolt a ride with my acquaintance Lila.

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catch a Tartar

catch a Tartar
Seek out article or addition that turns out to be accidentally abhorrent or formidable, as in Now that she assuredly agreed to accommodated with you, you aloof ability acquisition that you've bent a Tartar. In this term, Tartar signifies a difficult or sometimes agitated individual, apropos to Turkic and Mongolian invaders of Asia in the Average Ages. [Mid-1600s]

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catch as bolt can

no order, get what you can The Clearance Sale was bolt as bolt can - anniversary one for himself.

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catch at

try to authority or use 试图抓住
A agent will bolt any adventitious of authoritative a profit．经商的人会抓住任何赚钱的机会。

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catch at straws

depend on sth．that is abortive or clumsy to advice in a time of agitation or danger；try sth．with little achievement of succeeding捞救命稻草（将要溺死之人连一根草也要去抓）
To depend on your anamnesis after belief for a analysis is to butt at straws．应付考试只凭记忆而不学习那是枉费心机。

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catch at|catch

v. 1. To try to bolt suddenly; grab for. The boy on the ball bent at the assumption ring, but did not get it. 2. To appropriate quickly; acquire mentally or physically. The athirst man bent at the sandwich and began to eat. Joe bent at Bill's action to help.

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catch cold

be ailing with a algid 感冒
She bent algid and had a astringent headache．她感冒了，头痛得厉害。

be (as) afraid as a cat

To be acutely anxious, apprehensive, or uneasy. I was afraid as a cat as I waited for them to advertise the winner. Carrie's been as afraid as a cat cat-and-mouse for the doctor to alarm with the analysis results.Learn more: cat, nervous

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