whip the cat

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(idiomatic) To attempt to get work or money from someone who is too weak or poor to provide it. / (UK, Australia, obsolete, idiomatic) To practice extreme parsimony.

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The supervisor tried to whip the cat by pressuring the struggling workers into unpaid overtime.

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意味（1）

(idiomatic) To attempt to get work or money from someone who is too weak or poor to provide it.

There was a terrible whipping of the cat, as it is called, on the day the notes became due. This whipping the cat is nothing more than a parcel of traders puffing at one another's heels . . . to borrow money.

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意味（2）

(UK, Australia, obsolete, idiomatic) To practice extreme parsimony.

He kept school within six miles of Cooperstown, on the Burlington road, whipping the cat, just as young Munro did!

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(Australia, New Zealand, idiomatic) To regret; to feel self-pity

I believe one of the members of our hunting section was lucky enough to get a subscription through before they stopped it. The rest of the members of the section have been "whipping the cat” because they left it too late

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(idiomatic) To blame someone for something that is not their fault.

Whipping the cat may only increase our resentment and burn us up with anger. We may engage in combat with our neighbor until both are exhauste . Calling a truce and limping back under our own roof would not be peace.

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意味（5）

(idiomatic) To get drunk.

Presumably while Armin as Tutch is off “whipping the cat” ( getting drunk ) with the watermen, Blue John, his doubled part, arrives to entertain the wedding guests with his nurse and a boy.

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(US, dialect, dated, idiomatic) To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do.

The practice of "whipping the cat,” though gradually disappearing, is not altogether abandoned by the tailors in this district.

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意味（7）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see whip, cat.

Some recommend taking the dead bird away from the cat and whipping the cat.

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whips the cat （ present singular third-person ）

whipping the cat （ participle present ）

whipped the cat （ participle past ）

whipped the cat （ past ）