cat and mouse n.
1. a house.
![]() | Vulgar Tongue. | |
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![]() | Pall Mall Gaz. 4 July 3/2: Other examples of [...] the simple form of rhyming slang are ‘cat and mouse’ (house). | |
![]() | Und. Speaks. | |
![]() | Dict. of Rhy. Sl. | |
![]() | Up the Frog. | |
![]() | Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 26: The man set off back towards his cat and mouse. | |
![]() | Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl. |
2. housekeeping.
![]() | Sl. Dict. (1890) 10: Cat and Mouse. Housekeeping. |