cat-and-mouse

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of cat and mouse. alt-of,alternative,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To engage in a game of cat and mouse.; To mutually monitor and challenge each other in an attempt to gain advantage. intransitive
    — The Cinque Ports' navy had torn up and down the Channel harassing any marauding French; smugglers had cat-and-moused with revenue men over the marshes, into the woods.
  2. To engage in a game of cat and mouse.; To toy with (one's victim). transitive
    — But previously it has only cat-and-moused him, trying to achieve the delicate balance of injuring him and yet not having to eat him alive, he then being too big in popularity to swallow.
形容词 adj.
  1. suspenseful, involving alternating roles of attack and defence. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — From a cat-and-mouse sequence at a busy airport to a long car chase through Rome to a grand finale aboard a runaway train, each action scene tops the one before it.

词形变化

cat-and-mouses present,singular,third-person cat-and-mousing participle,present cat-and-moused participle,past cat-and-moused past
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