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1 a singe cat

амер.; жарг.

( a singe (или singed) cat)

человек, кажущийся хуже, чем он есть на самом деле; человек, выигрывающий при более близком знакомстве [часть шотл. выражения he is like the singed cat, better than he is likely]

...you're a kind of a singed cat as the saying is better'n you look. (M. Twain, ‘Tom Sawyer’, ch. I) —...вы, как говорится, кажетесь хуже, чем вы есть на самом деле.

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2 cat

- able to make a cat speak

- all cats are grey in the dark

- all cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

- bell the cat

- the cat among the pigeons

- the cat did it

- has the cat got your tongue?

- a cat has nine lives

- a cat in gloves catches no mice

- a cat in pan

- a cat in the meal

- the cat is out of the bag

- a cat may look at a king

- a cat o'nine tails

- the cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream

- the cat's meow

- a cat with nine lives

- a cool cat

- a copy cat

- dog my cats!

- enough to make a cat laugh

- a fat cat

- feel like smth. the cat has brought in

- a gay cat

- grin like a Cheshire cat

- have as many lives as a cat

- it is pouring cats and dogs

- Kilkenny cats

- let the cat out of the bag

- like a cat in a strange garret

- like a cat on hot bricks

- like a scalded cat

- look like smth. the cat has brought in

- look like the cat after it had eaten the canary

- nervous as a cat

- an old cat

- play cat and mouse with smb.

- put a cat among the canaries

- see how the cat jumps

- shoot the cat

- a singe cat

- skin the cat

- a tame cat

- teach the cat the way to the kirn

- that cat won't jump

- there are more ways than one to kill a cat

- weak as a cat

- what can you have of a cat but her skin

- when the cat's away, the mice will play

- whip the cat

- wildcat

- wildcat

- you cannot swing a cat

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