more than one way to skin a cat

Idioms  

1. More than one method to reach the same end, as in We can get around that by renting instead of buying a computer—there's more than one way to skin a cat. This expression may be an American version of the earlier British more ways of killing a cat, but why the death of a cat should be alluded to at all is not clear. [Second half of 1800s]

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Example Sentences

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat in terms of scoring runs and winning baseball games,” Kapler told reporters last month.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

Just as there is more than one way to skin a cat, there’s more than one way to unify the party.

From US News • Mar. 18, 2016

Well, more than one way to skin a cat, we guess.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2014

The ongoing impetus for fairytale adaptations remains primarily economic – after the runaway success of Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland, studios believe there's more than one way to skin a cat.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod