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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cat Jumps (The). See how the cat jumps, "which way the wind blows"; which of two alternatives is likely to be the successful one before you give any opinion of its merit or adhesion to it, either moral or otherwise. The allusion is to the game called tip-cat. Before you strike, you must observe which way the "cat" has jumped up. We are told that our forefathers had a cruel sport, which consisted in placing a cat in a tree as a mark to shoot at. A wily sportsman would, of course, wait to see which way it jumped before he shot at her. This sort of sport was very like that of hanging two cats by their tails over a rope. (See page 224, Kilkenny Cat.) "He soon saw which way the cat did jump, And his company he offered plump." The Dog's-meat Man (See Universal Songster, 1825.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caution | Think twice, look before one leaps, count the cost, look to the main chance, cut one's coat according to one's cloth; feel one's ground, feel one's way; see how the land lies; (foresight); wait to see how the cat jumps; bridle one's tongue; reculer pour mieux sauter; (prepare); let well alone, let well enough alone; let sleeping dogs lie, ne pas reveiller le chat qui dort. |
Eventuality | Adverb: eventually; in the event of, in case, just in case; in the course of things; as things, times go; as the world goes, wags; as the tree falls, cat jumps; as it may turn out, happen. |
Foresight | See one's way; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, see how the wind blows, test the waters, see how the cat jumps. |
Tergiversation | Trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expressions using "CAT JUMPS": see how the cat jumps ♦ see which way the cat jumps ♦ wait to see how the cat jumps ♦ wait to see which way the cat jumps. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CAT JUMPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | èekat, jak se to vyvrbí (wait to see which way the cat jumps). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kivárja a fejleményeket (to see which way the cat jumps). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | atcay umpsjay olayların gelişimine göre hareket etmek (see which way the cat jumps, wait for the cat to jump). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-j-m-p-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: campus, catsup, muscat, upcast. | |
-3 letters: camps, caput, jaups, jumps, mauts, musca, pacts, pujas, pumas, scamp, scaup, scuta, sputa, stamp, stump, stupa, sumac, tamps, tumps. | |
-4 letters: acts, amps, amus, camp, cams, caps, cast, cats, cups, cusp, cuts, jams, jaup, jump, just, juts, macs, maps, mast, mats, maut, must, muts, pacs, pact, pams, past, pats. | |
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