while the cat's away, the mice will play
sayingsaid when the person who is in charge of a place is not there, and the people there behave badly
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bad and wrong behaviour
- act
- act out
- act up
- angel
- astray
- at your worst idiom
- be no angel idiom
- cross
- go off the rails idiom
- go round
- impossible
- incorrigible
- indecorous
- rail
- rough
- sink to such a level/such depths idiom
- step
- step out of line idiom
- step/be out of line idiom
- terrible twins
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