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like_a_cat_on_a_hot_tin_roof

like a cat on a hot tin roof

English

Adjective

like a cat on a hot tin roof

  1. (simile, colloquial, chiefly US) Jumpy, nervous.

Usage notes

Once said as like a cat on hot bricks, but this form is less common because of the 1955 play and subsequent movie titled Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.