Brewer's: Nimble as a Cat on a hot Bake-stone

In a great hurry to get away. The bake-stone in the north is a large stone on which bread and oat-cakes are baked.

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