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like a cat on hot bricks



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Also, like a cat on a hot tin roof . Restless or skittish, unable to remain still, as in Nervous about the lecture he had to give, David was like a cat on hot bricks . The first expression replaced a still earlier one, like a cat on a hot bake-stone , which appeared in John Ray's Proverbs (1678). The second was popularized as the title of Tennessee Williams's play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955).

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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