Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cat-lap

Milk or weak tea, only fit for the cat to lap.

“A more accomplished old woman never drank cat-lap.” —Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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