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nine lives
c. nine lives: the number of lives proverbially allotted to a cat. Also in extended use.
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giiv A woman hath nyne lyues lyke a cat.
?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) sig. Biij And therof hath come the prouerb as trew as common, that a Cat hath nine liues, that is to say, a witch may take on her a Cats body nine times.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 76 Nothing King of Cates, but borrow one of your nine liues . View more context for this quotation
1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable f. 3v I shall be mowz'd by pusse-cattes: but I had rather dye a dogs death; they haue nine liues (a peece like a woman).
a1644 F. Quarles Virgin Widow (1649) i. i. 8 From two-legg'd Cats with thrice nine lives, From scalding woort, from scolding Wives.
1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate iii. i. 27 Dian. Indeed! How many Mistrisses have you had? Sir John. Some Nine, or thereabouts. Dian. Then you have had nine lives, like a Cat.
1747 W. King Toast iv. 189 But the Hero well judging, that masculine Wives Often rise from the Dead, and like Cats have nine Lives.
1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 242 'Tis thought that Cats have got nine lives: Some husbands think so of their wives.
1807 A. W. Leland Fatal Error v. 22 Phi. Is he dead? Jago. Yes that he is, if he'd the nine lives of a cat, for the black of blood of his heart closely followed my dagger out.
1879 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 882/1 The cat, after a long fast, was taken out, with three of its nine lives apparently intact.
1904 L. F. Baum Marvelous Land of Oz 154 I had the good fortune to save the ninth life of a tailor—tailors having, like cats, nine lives.
1931 J. C. Woods Pageant of Poets 48 I am that cat, nine lives agone, Who brushed about your shoon, Villon.
1992 Economist 26 Dec. 15/1 To judge by the on-off progress of the Uruguay round of trade talks, the GATT has nine lives. Even that may not be enough.
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