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Muffled Cats catch no Mice

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(In Italian, “Catta guantata non piglia sorice.”) Said of those who work in gloves for fear of soiling their fingers.

 

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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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Mozaide
Much or Mudge
Much Ado about Nothing
Muciana Cautio
Mucklebackit
Mucklewrath
Mud-honey
Mudarra
Muff (A)
Muffins and Crumpets
Muffled Cats catch no Mice
Mufti
Mug-house
Mugello
Muggins
Muggletonian
Mugwump (A)
Mugwump Press (The)
Mulatto (Spanish)
Mulberry
Mulciber—i.e