Chapter Cast Anchor to Cat and Dog of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Cat-call A kind of whistle used at theatres by the audience to express displeasure or impatience. A hideous noise like the call or waul of a cat.

“I was very much surprised with the great consort of cat-calls ... to see so many persons of quality of both sexes assembled together at a kind of caterwauling.”- Addison, Spectator, No. 361.

Cat-eyed Able to see in the dark. Cat's eye is an opalescent mineral gem.

Cat Jumps (The). See how the cat jumps, “which way the wind blows”; which of two alternatives is likely to be the successful one before you give any opinion of its merit or adhesion to it, either moral or otherwise. The allusion is to the game called tip-cat. Before you strike, you must observe which way the “cat” has jumped up.
    We are told that our forefathers had a cruel sport, which consisted in placing a cat in a tree as a mark to shoot at. A wily sportsman would, of course, wait to see which way it jumped before he shot at her. This sort of sport was very like that of hanging two cats by their tails over a rope. (See page 224, Kilkenny Cat.)

“He soon saw which way the cat did jump,
And his company he offered plump.”
The Dog's-meat Man (See Universal Songster, 1825.)

Cat Stane Battle stone. A monolith in Scotland (sometimes wrongly called a Druidical stone). The Norwegian term, bauta stein, means the same thing. (Celtic, cath, battle.)

Cat and Dog To live a cat and dog life. To be always snarling and quarrelling, as a cat and dog, whose aversion to each other is intense.

“There will be jealousies, and a cat-and-dog life over yonder worse than ever” - Carlyle: Frederick the Great (vol. ii. book ix. p. 346.).

   It is raining cats and dogs. Very heavily. We sometimes say, “It is raining pitchforks.” which is the French locution, “Il tombe des hallebardes ”

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