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Definition of Cat and mouse
1. Noun. A game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first.
Definition of Cat and mouse
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A relationship in which two parties closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is attempting to gain an advantage over the other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cat And Mouse
Literary usage of Cat and mouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Games & Dances: A Selected Collection of Games, Song-games and Dances by William Albin Stecher (1912)
"cat and mouse. (Cat and Rat.) The players stand in a circle facing inward, grasping
hands. The teacher chooses one child as the cat, who stands outside, ..."
2. India: what Can it Teach Us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the by Friedrich Max Müller (1883)
"But among these compounds we find in Panini neither cat and dog, nor cat and mouse.
Pasini knew the wild-cat, the vii/ala (VI, 2, 72), but not the tame cat, ..."
3. A Second Reader by Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks (1910)
"cat and mouse Paul why both game in deed' ... "Cat and Mouse is a good game,"
said mother. "W'ould you like to try that?" " Indeed we should," said all the ..."
4. Gymnastic Stories and Plays for Primary Schools: Physical Exercises for the by Rebecca Stoneroad (1899)
"... cat and mouse. A KING is formed by clasping hands. Two children are chosen,
one of whom goes inside the ring and is called the "mouse," ..."
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