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
It seems they called a caucus wise Of rats of every age and size, And then their dean, With sapient mien, A very Solon of a rat, Said it was best to bell the cat.
From The Jingle Book by Herford, Oliver
No one now-a-days will bell the cat, or, like John the Baptist, tell the truth to Herod.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
