Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cat and mouse n.

[rhy. sl.]

1. a house.

[UK]‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Hotten Sl. Dict.
[UK]Pall Mall Gaz. 4 July 3/2: Other examples of [...] the simple form of rhyming slang are ‘cat and mouse’ (house).
[US]A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
[UK]J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
[UK]S.T. Kendall Up the Frog.
[UK]R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 26: The man set off back towards his cat and mouse.
[UK]B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.

2. housekeeping.

[US]Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890) 10: Cat and Mouse. Housekeeping.