| 单词 | to fight like kilkenny cats |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fight like Kilkenny cats f. to fight like Kilkenny cats: to engage in a mutually destructive struggle. to bell the cat, see bell v.5 1, to hang the bell about the cat's neck, see bell n.1 9. to let the cat out of the bag: to disclose a guarded secret: see bag n. to grin like a Cheshire cat (see Notes & Queries 1852 V. 402). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > smile [verb (intransitive)] > grin(s) grina1500 girn1562 to grin like a Cheshire cat1770 1770–1819 J. Wolcot in Wks. (1812) 91 Lo! like a Cheshire cat our court will grin. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiv. 236 Mr. Newcome says..‘That woman grins like a Cheshire cat’. < as lemmas |
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