Cat
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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By the Lights of Their Eyes: That small blinking pair of eyes next to Johnson in the dark mine — is not the cat.
- He does, and answers the Discworld version of Schrodinger's cat (the states of the cat can be dead, alive, or alive and bloody furious) as "Greebo went off like a Claymore mine".
Source: Schmuck Bait / Literature -
In the Discworld book Lords and Ladies, a witch takes out an elf by stuffing a particularly ill-tempered cat into a box and having the victim open it, upon which the cat "went off like a claymore mine".
Source: Cat-apult
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Mine and Cat. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cat/mine
Cat & Mine. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cat/mine>.
Mine or Cat. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cat/mine.
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