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cat-and-mouse

[kat uhn mous] / ˈkæt ən ˈmaʊs /


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Cat-and-mouse games are played throughout Paris’s gray labyrinth, with Maigret’s most inept associate stumbling across the crucial clue.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2017

Cat-and-mouse taunting between protesters and timber crews had gone on for years, but recent confrontations had turned sour.

From Time Magazine Archive




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