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Cat and mouse

noun

A game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first. Synonym: cat and rat.

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"Cat and mouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... her heart was sick. She had several more boys to subjugate before she could establish herself. And Mr. Harby hated her almost as if she were a man. She knew now that nothing but a thrashing would settle some of the big louts who wanted to play cat and mouse with her. Mr. Harby would not give them the thrashing if he could help it. For he hated the teacher, the stuck-up, insolent ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Words linked to "Cat and mouse" : child's game