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 Cat’s Cradle.Cat’s Melody (The). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cat’s Foot.
 
To live under the cat’s foot. To be under petticoat government; to be henpecked. A mouse under the paw of a cat lives but by sufferance and at the cat’s pleasure.   1
 


 Cat’s Cradle.Cat’s Melody (The). 

 
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