| 单词 | there is more than one way to skin a cat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere is more than one way to skin a cat b. Originally U.S. there is more than one way to skin a cat and variants: there is more than one means of achieving a given aim. ΚΠ 1847 Independent Amer. & Gen. Advertiser (Platteville, Wisconsin Territory) 11 June There are two ways to skin a cat, and two ways to win a heart. 1880 18th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. Michigan 215 Usually, as the old saying is, ‘There is more than one way to skin a cat’—more than one method of producing the same result. 1958 F. O'Connor Let. 5 July in Habit of Being (1979) 291 Seventeen New York publishers turned his book down, so he had it privately printed himself... More than one way to skin a cat. 1992 Independent 22 Sept. 1/4 No, I'm choosing my words quite carefully because there are different ways of skinning this particular cat. 2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake (2004) 275 I don't want no blood-baths, no comebacks, no messy implications. There's more than one way to skin a cat. < as lemmas |
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