cat and mouse

Definition of Cat And Mouse in English :

Noun

1. cat and mouse, cat and rat

a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first

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WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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adjective

denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness

The existing mandate would permit the Iraqis to resume what the White House has called their 'cat and mouse game' with the West.

the cat-and-mouse pursuit of a serial killer

the cat-and-mouse game of espionage

The police and militants played a cat and mouse game with each other.

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adjective

Informal

of or designating behavior like that of a cat toying with a mouse; specif., of or designating a strategy by which one repeatedly challenges an opponent while waiting to strike

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adj.

1. Playfully or teasingly cruel, as in prolonging the pain or torment of another: the cat-and-mouse tactics of the interrogators.

2. Of or involving a suspenseful and sometimes alternating relation between hunter and hunted: "another cat-and-mouse thriller" (New York Times).

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