i88 CAT PROVERBS. 



Every day's no yule; cast the cat a castock. The stump 

 of a cabbage, and the proverb means much the same thing 

 as "Spare no expense, bring another bottle oi sffiall beer.'^ — 

 Denham's Popular Sayings, 1846. 



OF FALSE PERSONS. 



He bydes as fast as a cat bound with a sacer. He does 

 as he likes ; nothing holds him. 



OF WITTIE PERSONS. 



He can hold the cat to the sun. Bold and foolish enough 

 for anything. 



INCONSTANT PERSONS. 



He is like a dog or a cat. Not reliable. 



He looks like a wild cat out of a bush. Fiercely afraid. 



His like a cat ; fling him which way you will, he'll not 

 hurt. Some are always superior to misfortune, or fortune 

 favours many. 



He's like a singed cat, better tha?i he's likely. He's 

 better than he looks or seems. 



He stands in great need that borrows the cat's dish. — 

 Clarke, 1639. The starving are not pardcular. The 

 hungry cannot choose. 



He lives at the sign of the cat's foot. He is hen-pecked, 

 his wife scratches him. — Ray. 



He w aid gar a ma?i tro:v that the moo7i is made of green 

 cheis, or the cat took the heron. Never believe all that is 

 laid to another. 



Hofiest as the cat when the meat is out of reach. Some 

 are honest, but others not by choice. 



How can the cat help it when the maid is a fool ? Often 

 things lost, given, or stolen, are laid to the cat. 



If thou 'scap'st, thou hast cafs luck, in Fletcher's K?iight 

 of Malta, alluding to the activity and caution of the cat, 

 which generally stands it in good stead. 



