| 单词 | cat-and-mouse act |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCat-and-mouse Act Cat-and-mouse Act n. nickname for the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-health) Act of 1913 to enable hunger-strikers to be released temporarily; used chiefly attributively (now without capital initials) of (esp. official) action taken (repeatedly or for a prolonged period) against a weaker party. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > temporary discharge of hunger-strikers Cat-and-mouse Act1913 1913 Punch 23 July 81/1 Plural Residence, which will still be permitted after abolition of Plural Voting, is being encouraged by the Cat-and-Mouse Act. 1926 G. B. Shaw Translations & Tomfooleries 225 The Cat and Mouse principle..is a part of the law of England. 1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed viii. 156 The Absolutists [conscientious objectors] went to jail, again and again and again, as men ‘deemed to have been enlisted’... During this cat-and-mouse performance every conceivable kind of inducement, temptation, and privation were used by the Government..in order to make the objectors surrender. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. 18 The Administration played a curious cat-and-mouse game with the Jewish self-defence organization. 1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai ii. 28 He was..prepared to enjoy a game of cat-and-mouse with the superior little English boy. < as lemmas |
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