单词 | bell the cat |
释义 | bell the catTake the danger of a shared enterprise upon oneself.Warner is to be lauded for his courage to bell the cat, albeit at the eleventh hour, and close this unfortunate chapter in the country's footballing history, by replacing St Clair....
An allusion to a fable in which the mice (or rats) suggest hanging a bell around the cat's neck to have warning of its approach See parent entry: bell |
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