cat-and-mouse
Example Sentences
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This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
It then turns into a game of cat and mouse.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
"It is a cat and mouse game," he said.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
Federal regulators call it a growing epidemic, and stopping the thieves has become a game of cat and mouse for law enforcement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
Now it was a game of cat and mouse.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
