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cat-and-mouse
noun as in waiting game
Example Sentences
The days ahead will be peppered with captain and player news conferences, a game of cat and mouse with the media trying to elicit controversial comments that could light a blue touch paper.
While emergency responders were focused on controlling the flames at lower elevations, thousands of climbers, backpackers and other mountain enthusiasts played a dangerous game of cat and mouse with storms on the state’s storied summits.
It'll always be a cat and mouse game, there will always be people developing new techniques or people getting away with things.
Then I knew it was going to be tough to keep them behind, and then it's cat and mouse, playing with DRS and battery usage.
Less than a mile from where she disappeared from, press photographers with long lenses trying to get pictures are playing cat and mouse with officers from the Policia Judiciaria - the Portuguese equivalent of the FBI.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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