To live under the cat’s foot. To be under petticoat government; to be henpecked. A mouse under the paw of a cat lives but by sufferance and at the cat’s pleasure.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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