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 Nimble as a Cat on a hot Bakestone.Nimbus 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Nimble as Ninepence.
 
(See NINEPENCE.)   1
 


 Nimble as a Cat on a hot Bakestone.Nimbus 

 
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