英語「cat and mouse」の意味・読み方・表現

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cat‐and‐mouse

cát‐and‐móuse

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1追えば逃げ逃げると追いかける.

2最上の攻撃チャンスをうかがう.

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cat and mouse

名詞

1. プレーヤーが円を形成し手を握り合う子供のためのゲーム(a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands)

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訳語

悪魔の生物教師

備考

クロード・ルルーシュ監督による映画（1975）

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Cat and mouse

いたちごっこ

いたちごっこは、江戸時代後期に流行った子供の遊び。

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cat-and-mouse

発音

形容詞

cat-and-mouse (not comparable)

(idiomatic) suspenseful, involving alternating roles of attack and defence.
- 2012 February 15, Jonathan McEvoy, “Hoy and Kenny keep it friendly but barnstorming Olympic battle looms at the Velodrome”, in Daily Mail‎^[1]:
  Does that produce a different dynamic when they meet in battle?
  ‘It does,’ said Hoy. ‘I tell myself that it doesn’t matter who you race against, you try to expose their weaknesses. The only difference is that they know your weaknesses. It just makes it a bit more of a mind game, a cat-and-mouse strategy.
- 2003 December 12, Stephen Holden, “The Statement (2003) FILM REVIEW; A Frenchman on the Run From His Vichy Past”, in New York Times‎^[2]:
  A cat-and-mouse thriller with delusions of grandeur, The Statement arrives wrapped in an intimidating mystique of high-minded solemnity that makes its vagueness and incoherence all the more disappointing when the pieces don't add up.

名詞

cat-and-mouse (uncountable)

Alternative form of cat and mouse

動詞

cat-and-mouse (三人称単数現在形 cat-and-mouses, 現在分詞 cat-and-mousing, 過去形および過去分詞形 cat-and-moused)

To engage in a game of cat and mouse.
1. (intransitive) To mutually monitor and challenge each other in an attempt to gain advantage.
  - 1975, Elizabeth Bowen, Pictures and conversations, page 26:
    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.
  - 2000, Arthur Plotnik, Elements of Authorship:
    You have actually "gone to contract" after months of cat-and-mousing with an editor who had to be convinced and who had to convince an editorial group of your punishability.
  - 2014, Robert Wintner, 1969 and Then Some:
    Light-headed we cat-and-moused, throttled down and sped up, weaving figure eights until ten miles from Biarritz, when we learned that even a Lightning Rocket is mortal.
  - 2017, Suzanne M. Adema, Speech and Thought in Latin War Narratives: Words of Warriors:
    From the very start of caput 48, Caesar and Ariovistus no longer seem to communicate by means of speech but by means of military actions and reactions and the narrative of their cat-and-mousing does not contain many speeches.
2. (transitive) To toy with (one's victim).
  - 1955, The New Yorker - Volume 30, Part 5, page 197:
    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.
  - 1979, Diana Cooper, Autobiography, page 560:
    Victor listened and smiled, teased and cat-and-moused me, but finally agreed to grounding my folly-in-the-air.
  - 2004, Fritz Leiber, ‎Ben J. S. Szumskyj, ‎S. T. Joshi, Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark, page 301:
    This is the reason too for the cat-and-mousing of Wilmarth: the Plutonians must spend hours making hintful revelations to him after they have him in their power, simply because this will maximize his scare. Lovecraft must cat-and-mouse with us as well, interminably exploiting the hesitations and reluctances of his narrator to tell us what the basic horror is.

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Cat and mouse

出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/14 11:04 UTC 版)

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引用: Cat and mouse, often expressed as cat-and-mouse game, is an English-language idiom dating back to 1675 that means "a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes." The "cat" is unable to secure a definitive victory over the "mouse", who despite not being able to defeat the cat, is able to avoid capture. In extreme cases, the idiom may imply that the contest is never-ending.

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cat and mouse

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