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1. Which of the following adjectives best describes someone who is "playing a cat and mouse game" with someone (assuming they are metaphorically the cat)?
2. What does the proverb "a cat can look at a king" mean?
3. According to the proverb, you should keep more cats than can catch mice, just in case.
4. What is someone doing if they look at you, and refer to you as "something the cat dragged in"?
5. What is the saying associated with the idea that unless there is supervision, people will misbehave?
6. What is the idiom associated with there not being a lot of space?
7. What have you done if you are said to have "set the cat among the pigeons?"
8. Who, or what, would we use the phrase "fat cat" to describe?
9. If the "cat's got your tongue," you are able to speak very eloquently, and always have something to say.
10. What does it mean if something is "as high as the hair on the cat's back"?
11. What does it mean if something is described as being "the cat's pyjamas"?
12. If it's raining cats and dogs, it's just a light drizzle.
13. According to the proverb, what killed the cat?
14. If you are "like a cat on hot tin roof," what are you?
15. The theory is that cats can survive anything that should be severe enough to kill them. How many lives is a cat said to have?
16. The saying "grinning like a Cheshire cat" originates from the book "The Wind In The Willows."
17. There's more than one way to _________ a cat.
18. What does it mean if you "let the cat out of the bag"?
19. What is the proverb associated with the idea that you cannot always get what you want by being polite and careful?
20. If someone is a "fraidy cat," are they brave?
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