cat's meat
English
Etymology
Animals' lungs used to be sold as food for cats.
Noun
cat's meat (uncountable)
- (UK, obsolete, slang) A person's lungs.
- 1821, J. Burrowes, Life in St George's Fields,
- You must let him have all the jaw-work to himself, and give a holiday to your cat's meat.
- 1821, J. Burrowes, Life in St George's Fields,
References
- “Cat's-meat” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary […], 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 111.
Anagrams
- castmate, mactates