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Showing posts with label cat. Show all posts
- When the counselor left, we had a pillow fight. When the cat's away, the mice will play.
- The convicts started their fights as soon as the jailer left. When the cat's away, the mice will play.
Meaning:
When the person in charge is absent, people will usually do as they please and take advantage of the freedom.
Examples of this idiom:
- "You're looking like the cat that swallowed the canary. Wait until I beat you next time."
- When Ashley found that she was the only one who had gotten 100 on the big test, she looked like the cat that swallowed the canary.
Meaning:
Very self-satisfied.
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