CAT'S PAW

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cat's Paw To be made a cat's paw of, i.e. the tool of another, the medium of doing another's dirty work. The allusion is to the fable of the monkey who wanted to get from the fire some roasted chestnuts, and took the paw of the cat to get them from the hot ashes. "I had no intention of becoming a cat's paw to draw European chestnuts out of the fire." - Com. Rodgers. At sea, light air during a calm causing a ripple on the water, and indicating a storm, is called by sailors a cat's paw, and seamen affirm that the frolics of a cat indicate a gale. These are relics of a superstition that cats are witches or demons in disguise. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	CAT'S PAW. To be made a cat's paw of; to be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another: an allusion to the story of a monkey, who made use of a cat's paw to scratch a roasted chesnut out of the fire. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "CAT'S PAW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vegël (applicator, doohickey, dummy, engine, gadget, implement, instrument, Jigger, tool, utensil, utility), mashë (dummy, fire-iron, poker, tongs), erë e lehtë (air, zephyr). (various references)

Arabic		‏مخلب القط, ‏لعبة (game, merry go round, play, plaything, poppet, servant, tool, toy, vehicle), ‏آداة (instrument). (various references)

Bulgarian		маша (cats paw, curling irons, curling tongs, fire-irons, hatchet man, instrument, tongs, tool), зефир (cats paw, gale, zephyr). (various references)

Czech		nastrèený èlovìk (cats paw). (various references)

Finnish		kätyri (tool). (various references)

French		dupe. (various references)

Hebrew		כלי שרת (tool). (various references)

Hungarian		kis széllökés nyoma a vízen, bérenc (hessian, hireling). (various references)

Italian		zampa di gatto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		走狗 (dupe, hound, hunting dog, running dog, tool of another person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そうく (dupe, hound, hunting dog, lean, running dog, tool of another person). (various references)

Pig Latin		at'scay awpay

Romanian		unealtã (creature, dummy, furniture, implement, instrument, minister, pawn, puppet, tackle, thing, tool, utensil), labã de pisicã, brizã uşoarã, adiere uşoarã. (various references)

Russian		орудие в чьих-л. руках, легкий бриз. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		priteznica, onaj koji služi kao oruđe, lahor (aura, breeze, zephyr). (various references)

Spanish		instrumento (agent, appliance, flute, implement, indenture, instrument, means, tool, wood). (various references)

Turkish		maşa (a pair of tongs, forceps, pincers, tongs), alet edilen kimse. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: CAT'S PAW

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	Words within the letters "'-a-a-c-p-s-t-w"
	-1 letter: catspaw.
	-2 letters: wataps.
	-3 letters: ataps, pacas, pacts, pasta, tapas, watap.
	-4 letters: acta, acts, atap, caps, casa, cast, cats, caws, paca, pacs, pact, past, pats, paws, scat, spat, staw, swap, swat, tapa, taps, taws, twas, waps, wasp, wast, wats.
	-5 letters: aas, act, apt, asp, awa, cap, cat, caw, pac, pas, pat, paw, sac, sap, sat, saw.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dupe	Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Cat's Paw (1934)
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Author	Quotation
Moliere	To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.
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CAT'S PAW

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Literature

Slang in 1811

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Dupe

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Moliere

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Expression using "CAT'S PAW": be smb.'s cat's paw. Additional references.
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