like a cat in a strange garret

English

like a cat in a strange garret

(US, simile) Having a feeling of uncertainty and misapprehension due to being in an unfamiliar situation.
- 1852 William L. G. Smith - Life at the South: Or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it is
  Well, mass'r, I can't say for Lucinda and Dinah, but I should feel like a cat in a strange garret.
- 1862 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Vermont Board of Education
  Mothers cannot conveniently leave home to get about, and fathers, to use their own expression, "feel like a cat in a strange garret," when screwed up in one of the seats to the school house.

单词	like a cat in a strange garret
释义	like a cat in a strange garret English Prepositional phrase like a cat in a strange garret (US, simile) Having a feeling of uncertainty and misapprehension due to being in an unfamiliar situation. 1852 William L. G. Smith - Life at the South: Or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it is Well, mass'r, I can't say for Lucinda and Dinah, but I should feel like a cat in a strange garret. 1862 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Vermont Board of Education Mothers cannot conveniently leave home to get about, and fathers, to use their own expression, "feel like a cat in a strange garret," when screwed up in one of the seats to the school house.
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