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Tame Cat (A)

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A harmless dangler after a married woman; a cavalier servant; a cicisbeo.

“He soon installed himself as a tame cat in the MacMungo mansion.”—Truth (Queer Story), October, 1885.

 

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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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Tally (A)
Tally
Tally-ho!
Tallyman (A)
Talmud (The)
Talpot or Talipot Tree
Talus
Tam-o-Shanter’s Mare
Tamarisk
Tame Cat (A)
Tamerlane
Taming of the Shrew
Tammany (St.)
Tammany Ring
Tammuz
Tancred (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Tandem
Tandem D.O.M
Tangie
Tanist (A)