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Definition: CAT AND DOG |
CAT AND DOG1. Like a cat and dog; quarrelsome; inharmonious. ``I am sure we have lived a cat and dog life of it.'' --Coleridge. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Cat and Dog To live a cat and dog life. To be always snarling and quarrelling, as a cat and dog, whose aversion to each other is intense. "There will be jealousies, and a cat-and-dog life over yonder worse than ever" - Carlyle: Frederick the Great (vol. ii. book ix. p. 346.). It is raining cats and dogs. Very heavily. We sometimes say, "It is raining pitchforks." which is the French locution, "Il tombe des hallebardes " Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discord | Verb: be discordant; Adjective: disagree, come amiss; clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another; live like cat and dog; differ; dissent; have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CAT AND DOG |
| Specialty definitions using "CAT AND DOG": COOK, DOG-AND-CAT FOOD ♦ Dogs ♦ Rat, Cat, and Dog ♦ sacred. (references) |
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Expressions using "CAT AND DOG": fight like cat and dog ♦ lead a cat and dog life ♦ they are like cat and dog. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cat and dog | 5,412 |
cat and dog picture | 126 |
funny picture of cat and dog | 25 |
cat and dog shower curtain | 15 |
cat and dog com | 13 |
wallpaper cat and dog | 9 |
cat and dog joke | 9 |
cat and dog product | 8 |
its raining cat and dog | 7 |
overpopulation of cat and dog | 5 |
the truth about cat and dog movie | 4 |
like cat and dog | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CAT AND DOG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jsou na sebe jako pes a koèka (they are like cat and dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 犬猿の仲である (to be at enmity, to lead a cat and dog life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | け"え"のなかである (to be at enmity, to lead a cat and dog life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atcay anday ogday trãi ca pisicã cu câinele (lead a cat and dog life). (various references) pelearse como gato y perro (fight like cat and dog). (various references) kedi-köpek gibi zıt olmak (lead a cat and dog life), geçinememek (lead a cat and dog life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-g-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: cantdog. | |
-4 letters: canto, conga, cotan, donga, gonad, octad, octan, tango, tonga. | |
-5 letters: acta, agon, anga, anoa, anta, cant, coat, coda, dada, dado, dago, dang, data, dato, doat, dona, dong, gnat, goad, goat, nada, nota, taco, tang, toad, toga, tong. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 54 41 4E 44 44 4F 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010100 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000100 01001111 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A T   A N D   D O G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0054 0041 004E 0044 0044 004F 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37355423548382384941 |
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