Thread: Silliness Room to swing a cat? Hardly
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Old 08-17-2009, 04:36 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by jgray View Post
I thought it was "swing a dead cat". I'm not dumb enough to grab a live cat by the tail and try to swing it. The doctor's bill would be horrendous. And you thought Ginsu knives were sharp
The expression does not refer to pussy cats, but to the cat 'o nine tails - a whip used to punish sailors in the Royal Navy.
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