having kittens
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Kyziridis took that tumble in front of where the Hearts fans were having kittens, while pointing at Maswanhise as if guilty of the crime of the millennium.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
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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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