| 单词 | cats' concert |
| 释义 | > as lemmascats' concert cats' concert n. the noise of a number of cats wauling; any hideous combination of voices. ΚΠ 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 22 Caterwauling—Cats' concert on the pantiles; and applied to men, who go out nightly in search of adventures. 1859 E. Leslie Behaviour Bk. 332 One of the most horrible sounds imaginable is that produced by several fine voices all singing different songs. This cats' concert (as school-girls call it) results in a shocking and yet ludicrous discord. 1906 Times 10 Aug. 3/5 If Amasis is a cat's opera, the performance was no cats' concert. 1968 Hudson Rev. 21 118 On the streets nobody was astir, though Paley thought he heard a distant cat's concert. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 84 The feral Siamese have been holding a cats' concert in the night, a maniacal caterwauling that sends a shiver down the spine of every vertebrate on the island, whether quick or dead. < as lemmas |
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