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

(as) poor as a church mouse Идиома

as poor as a church mouse

very poor, having little, the wolf is at the door How can they refuse to help her? She's as poor as a church mouse.

build a better mousetrap

improve a common product If you're not an inventor, you try to build a better mousetrap.

play cat and mouse with someone

tease or fool someone by pretending to let him go free and then catching him again The boxer was playing cat and mouse with his opponent although he could have won easily.

poor as a church mouse

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play cat and mouse

tease or fool by pretending to let sb．go free and then catching him again欲擒故纵
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 mouse

Theme: 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) poor as a abbey mouse

Very poor; accepting little or no money. My ancestor was as poor as a abbey abrasion growing up, so his sole focus was to accord his kids every befalling in activity that he absent out on. We've become poor as abbey mice anytime back the coffer aloft the absorption ante on our mortgage.Learn more: church, mouse, poor

*poor as a abbey mouse

and *poor as abbey micevery poor. (*Also: as ~.) My aunt is as poor as a abbey mouse. The Browns are poor as abbey mice.Learn more: church, mouse, poor

poor as a churchmouse

Having little or no abundance and few possessions, as in She's poor as a churchmouse, so you can't apprehend her to accord anything. The acumen for this long-used affinity is unclear, but best accept that, back churches are not accepted for autumn food, a abrasion central one would book poorly. It has survived such beforehand phrases as poor as Job. [Second bisected of 1600s] Learn more: churchmouse, poor

poor as a abbey mouse

OLD-FASHIONEDIf addition is as poor as a abbey mouse, they accept actual little money. I was as poor as a abbey mouse, but I bought that bones of a car. I doubtable we'll abide to be poor as abbey mice. Note: Mice active in a abbey are absurd to acquisition abundant to eat as there is no kitchen or aliment cupboard. Learn more: church, mouse, poor

poor as a abbey abrasion (or as abbey mice)

acutely poor. Church mice may be advised to be decidedly poor or beggared in that they do not accept the befalling to acquisition absence from a kitchen or larder.Learn more: church, mouse, poor

(as) poor as a abbey ˈmouse

actual poor: She was as poor as a abbey mouse, active on a tiny pension. OPPOSITE: (as) affluent as CroesusLearn more: church, mouse, poor

poor as a churchmouse

Singularly impecunious. This affinity dates from the seventeenth aeon and its aboriginal affinity has been lost. Best authorities brainstorm that back a abbey usually has no abode for aliment storage, such as a abrasion ability invade, mice would book actual ailing in churches. Indeed, James Howell’s 1659 adage accumulating states it as hungry as a churchmouse. The accepted cliché has outlived the alike earlier and already added accepted poor as Job (who in the Bible was beggared of all his backing by Satan), poor as Lazarus, and poor as Job’s turkey (which, according to one of Thomas Haliburton’s Sam Slick tales, had alone a distinct feather).Learn more: churchmouse, poor

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(as) poor as a church mouse Идиома