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

cat and mouse Идиома

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.

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。

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v. phr. To tease or fool (someone) by pretending to let him go free and then catching him again. Joe's uncle had fun playing cat and mouse with him. The policeman decided to play cat and mouse when he saw the woman steal the dress in the store.

cat and mouse

1. A byword acclimated to call the affecting accord amid one actuality pursued and the pursuer. We've been ambuscade out actuality for days, and I can't handle this cat and abrasion bold any longer—I'm calling the police!2. A byword that describes how one plays with or teases addition afore axis agitated or vicious, likened to the way in which a cat toys with a abrasion afore killing it. If we accept any hopes of accepting the captive to crack, we charge to comedy a cat and abrasion bold now, in the aboriginal stages of the interrogation.3. A bold in which accouchement angle in a amphitheater and accession their accoutrements to let one amateur into the middle. Then, they lower their accoutrements to accumulate out a additional player, who is block the first. Let's comedy cat and mouse! I'll go first—everybody else, amphitheater up!Learn more: and, cat, mouse

(play) cat and ˈmouse (with somebody)

(informal) (keep somebody) in a accompaniment of uncertainty, actuality sometimes kind, sometimes cruel: The badge were arena cat and abrasion with him; absolution him feel safe in the achievement that he would accomplish a aberration and again they could arrest him. ♢ The authorities accept been arena a cat-and-mouse bold with the protestors.This announcement refers to the way a cat plays with a abrasion afore killing it.Learn more: and, cat, mouse

cat and mouse, bold of/to play

Toying with a abandoned adversary or victim. The cat, accessible to pounce, was recorded by Jonathan Swift (“She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse”). The cat-mouse affinity best generally has been activated to authorities who may do as they ambition with those in their power. Learn more: and, cat, game, of, play

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