tame cat meaning

  "tame cat" in a sentence
noun (US)
  A person who is happy to be completely dominated by another

Examples

  1. Paul Conway, secretary of left-wing Victorian meatworkers union, claims " The SDA is a tame cat union.
  2. In another documentary about the supposed hunting of tamed cats, Born paid an actor to stalk and kill a cat that Born had gotten from an animal shelter, prosecutors say.
  3. The Manciple digresses to say that one cannot tame a creature to remove its essential nature; no matter how well-fed a tame cat may be, it will still attack mice instinctively.
  4. The statue resembles a combination of Farr's tame cat and mice, whereby his cat was trained to sit atop his hat, and the mice trained to run circuits of the rim.

Related Words

        tame:    Verb: tame  teymCorrect by p ...
        tame cheater:     (Shakespeare)  A decoy
        cat:    Noun: cat  katFeline mammal ...
        cat.:    abbrev1. Catalogue2. Catechism; [Archi ...
        abyssinian cat:    Noun: Abyssinian catA small slender sh ...
        alley cat:    Noun: alley cat  alee katA h ...
        angora cat:    Noun: Angora cat  ang'goru k ...
        bell the cat:    Verb: bell the catTake a risk; perform ...
        big cat:    Noun: big catAny of several large cats ...
        black cat:    Noun: black cat  blak katLar ...
        black-cat:     noun  The pekan
        blue cat:    Noun: blue cat  bloo katA la ...
        boom cat:    [Mechanical engineering]A tractor supp ...
        burmese cat:    Noun: Burmese cat  bur'meez ...
        bush-cat:     noun  The serval

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