bell the cat
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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
“A capital idea!” said Harry; “but the question is, how are we to bell the cat, or rather, get hold of a chief?”
From The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific by William Henry Giles Kingston
"The only question is," said the old mouse, "who is to bell the cat?"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917 by Various
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