Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cat's Melody

(The). Squalling.

“The children were playing the cat's melody to keep their mother in countenance.” —W. B. Yeats: Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry, p. 238.

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