having kittens
Example Sentences
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She told me: "Jeremy's staff were having kittens because he had to go to another function. He just didn't want to leave."
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2018
“So in a sense, Schrödinger’s cat is having kittens crawling out,” Zurek says.
From Scientific American • Oct. 9, 2012
To spade a garden is to dig it up; to spay a cat is to keep her from having kittens.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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It seems strange to me that cats will go on having kittens when they know what becomes of them!
From New Chronicles of Rebecca by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
No matter what went wrong, from the cat having kittens or the chimney smoking, she looked to me as the cause.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Bosher, Kate Langley