What is the saying, "Curiosity killed the cat, but something something brought 'em back?"?
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curiousity killed the cat...but i was a suspect for a while!
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Thanks for that:\nThere the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled\nHath nature that in time will venom breed,\nNo teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow\nWe'll hear, ourselves, again.
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Well the leading expert on word and phrase orgins, says it probably really means to cruelly swing a cat by the tail.\n\n>>\n There are two theories about "not enough room to swing a cat," neither of them very cheerful. One is that the phrase refers to the "cat o'nine tails," a nine-thonged whip used in the days of square-rigged ships to discipline unruly sailors. This "cat" got its name from the fact that the welts it left on a sailor's back looked like enormous cat scratches. Most such whippings took place on the open deck, both as an example to the rest of the crew and because in the cramped quarters belowdecks there was "not enough room to swing a cat."\n\nThe other, less cat-friendly theory is that the phrase refers to literally swinging a cat around by its tail. This version seems to have quite a bit more evidence in its favor, the phrase having come into use in the mid-17th century and being used with clear reference to actual cats ever since, including in Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield." \n>>\n\nMark Twain uses the phrase in the kitty sense in his wonderful book "Roughing It":\n\n>>\nThe floor room unoccupied was not extensive. \nOne might swing a cat in it, perhaps, but not a long cat.\n>>\n\nAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary:\n>>\n1771 SMOLLETT Humph. Cl. II. 8 June, At London, I am pent up in frowzy lodgings, where there is not room enough to swing a cat.\n\n1665 Medela Pestil. 57 They had not space enough (according to the vulgar saying) to swing a Cat in.\n\n1850 DICKENS David Copperfield xxxv, Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but, as Mr. Dick just observed to me,..‘You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat.’\n>>
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Cat\nbecause he didn't care about what others thought of him\nHe didn't fall into temptation. \nand he was able to take care of himself
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you didn't give us enough of the quote to know what it's about. What is the entire quotation and what is the context?
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There is a whole page of quotes on mystery on this site:\n\nhttp://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/mystery_t001.htm
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What an insane, ridiculous, X-files question!  Everyone knows that cats are the transformed and eternal vessels for souls that escaped fiery destruction and watery death in atlantis.  Fnord.
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Grumpy Lady, died too soon.\nWatching you from the "Great Beyond".\nSo behave. I have connections, now that I'm dead.
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it's rabid.  I don't think cats, rabid or otherwise, can type.  and I like that statement about anyone can make almost any statement appear scientific and factual if they're stated out of context or spoken in syllogisms: ID, anyone?
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what do you mean again?
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Cats, I believe. Is it smarter to live your life trying to live up to someone else's expectations, or to do your own thing?I love dogs, but i like the fact that cats won't lower themselves to pointless acts such as chasing sticks and rolling over.What if someone told you to sit and rollover, ---you'd probably say:"No, why don't you roll over". :)
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Is it a male cat.\n\nProbably means something VERY profound like shall i lick my ar5e
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"..Is that a question? Seriously get a life and think some good question. You are insulting the intelligence of my cat with that question."\n\n^^^^ That is a characteristic of a Snob.
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From  The alt.usage.english  :\n\n"Given to a cat. How a cat got to have nine lives lies somewhere in the murk of the dark ages. Shakespeare's character Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet) was a reference to a cat and hence Mercutio's ill fated, "…nothing but one of your nine lives…"."\n\nAlso, for Etymology OnLine:\n\n"Cats were domestic in Egypt from c.2000 B.C.E., but not a familiar household animal to classical Greeks and Romans. The nine lives have been proverbial since at least c.1562."\n\nAnd, again, from Answer Bag:\n\n"Ancient mathematical philosophers called "nine" the "finishing post" and "that which brings completion." This is when the luck of the cat runs out, when he/she has used up their nine lives.  All of this comes from ancient belief systems and superstition. The word nine is still very popular today."\n\nHope that does it for you!
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It's a translation of a German proverb:\n\nDen Bock zum Gärtner machen.\nEnglish equivalent: "To trust the cat to keep the cream."\n\nIt's a metaphor - like sending a fox to guard the henhouse - meaning there is no reason to trust a cat not to eat cream or a fox not to eat eggs.
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I have a dictionary of quotations and did a search on the web.  Although I found a song by that title, I think the saying has to do with the elaborate mating rituals of birds.  They have evolved plumage and rituals that are associated with finding a mate.  Perhaps spending time on these sorts of things is "for the birds"?
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bc cats r dum and curiousity will alwasy kiil the cat lol