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cat-and-mouse
noun as in waiting game
Example Sentences
Each series is a cat-and-mouse story, with the hero and the villain identified from the beginning, though exactly who is the cat and who the mouse is an evolving, revolving situation.
The edge-of-your-seat series weaves together a cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, with Bianca searching for an assassin — the Jackal — who is leaving a trail of bodies in his wake as he continually evades authorities.
The cat-and-mouse game between Bruno and George provides the fun as each man always thinks they have the upper hand.
It’s a cat-and-mouse game, Noelke said; fraudsters will come up with ways to evade detection, and companies like Hiya will adapt to meet them.
On Nov. 8, she’ll star in the new A24 theological thriller “Heretic,” playing a Mormon missionary trapped in a game of cat-and-mouse with Hugh Grant.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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