Смысл: cat and mouse 
cat and mouse [͵kætəndʹmaʋs]
<Í> кошки-мышки (детская игра )
to play cat and mouse - а) играть в кошки-мышки; б) хитрить
<Í> кошки-мышки (
(as) quiet as a mouse Идиома
as poor as a church mouse
build a better mousetrap
play cat and mouse with someone
poor as a church mouse
play cat and mouse
The policeman decided to play cat and mouse when he saw the woman steal the dress in the store．警察发觉那女人在商店偷衣服时，他欲擒故纵，暂时先不抓她。
quiet as a mouse
Idiom(s): (as) quiet as a mouseTheme: SHYNESS
very quiet; shy and silent. (Informal. Often used with children.)
• Don't yell; whisper. Be as quiet as a mouse.
• Mary hardly ever says anything. She's quiet as a mouse.
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
If you depend on just one thing, and it fails you, you will have no alternatives.Mickey Mouse
If something is Mickey Mouse, it is intellectually trivial or not of a very high standard.While the cat's away, the mouse will play
People whose behaviour is strictly controlled go over the top when the authority is not around, which is why most teenagers have parties when their parents have gone on holiday. The parents are the scary authority figures, but the cat's away and the kids are the mice partying and enjoying their freedom.mickey mouse|mickey|mouse
mickey mouse1 adj., slang Inferior; second rate; chicken; easy; gimmicky. Watch out for Perkins; he's full of mickey mouse ideas.mickey mouse2 n. (derogatory) A stupid person; a policeman; a white man (as used by blacks).
(as) quiet as a mouse
Silent, meek, and gentle. I aloof can't accept that Kate absolutely yelled at Mike—she's usually as quiet as a mouse! We remained as quiet as mice to abstain actuality detected by the guards.Learn more: mouse, quiet*quiet as a (church) abrasion and *quiet as the grave
very quiet. (*Also: as ~.) You'd bigger be as quiet as a abrasion while Grandma takes her nap so you won't deathwatch her up. This boondocks is quiet as the grave now that the factories accept closed.Learn more: and, grave, mouse, quietquiet as a mouse
Also, still as a mouse. Silent, after noise, as in She sneaked into the house, quiet as a mouse, or When he heard the account he was still as a mouse. The aboriginal of these similes dates from the mid-1500s, the additional from the 1300s. Learn more: mouse, quietquiet as a mouse
If addition is quiet as a mouse, they are actual quiet or silent. During the day Mom was quiet as a mouse. She hardly said or did anything. We were quiet as mice, ambuscade in there.Learn more: mouse, quietquiet as a abrasion (or lamb)
(of a being or animal) acutely quiet or docile. 1982 Robertson Davies The Rebel Angels I shall be as quiet as a mouse. I'll aloof constrict my box…in this corner, appropriate out of your way. Learn more: mouse, quiet(as) quiet as a ˈmouse
(of a person) adage actual little or authoritative actual little noise: He’s quiet as a abrasion in class. ♢ Be as quiet as a abrasion back you go admiral — the baby’s comatose in our bedroom.Learn more: mouse, quietquiet as a mouse
Hushed, subdued. This affinity dates from the sixteenth aeon and apparently refers to the behavior of a abrasion that stops asleep in its advance at the access of a cat and charcoal as quiet as possible, acquisitive to abstain notice. Also put as still as a mouse, it has been afresh afresh and again, outliving the still earlier (fourteenth century) quiet as a lamb. Learn more: mouse, quiet
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