bell the cat
Example Sentences
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“These are the mice trying to bell the cat — only they can’t get one mouse to go out and do it,” he said.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2016
His opinion that certain firms are artificially increasing the prices is very much correct but who will bell the cat, that's the moot point.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
Baby Kochamma said, and to Chacko, “Ask him where he was yesterday. Let’s bell the cat once and for all.”
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
“You give very good advice, Mr Finlayson; but I will just ask you, as a Scotchman said, ‘Who is to bell the cat?’
From The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean by W. Herbert Holloway
In commercial circles, there was much discussion on the new state, and the prospects of trade therewith, and there was much talk as to "who should bell the cat."
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
