suffering cats

English

Interjection

suffering cats

  1. Alternative form of suffering catfish
    • 1917 July, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 181, column 3:
      Suffering cats!! My shoes became full of carpet tacks and I leapt so high that me head nearly hit the ceiling.
    • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist:
      "By the Harvest of Souls, hurry! Hurry! Here's the boy saying he's been eating, the stuff we don't mention. Suffering cats! I'll go mad!"
    • 1952, Manning Coles, The exploits of Tommy Hambledon:
      "Oh, suffering cats, they've started already," said Becker under his breath.
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