"Kilkenny cat" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Referring to an old story about two cats who fought to the death and ate each other up such that only their tails were left.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Kilkenny cats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Kilkenny cat (plural Kilkenny cats)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
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        {
          "ref": "1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 66:",
          "text": "Yet for my father the war was a source of considerable inner conflict; much as he detested Nazism he was psychologically incapable of desiring a British victory. (Very likely his secret wish was that Germany and Britain should do a Kilkenny cat act.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, →ISBN, page 29:",
          "text": "Even pirate crews and bands of robbers prefer a peaceful settled understanding as to the division of their plunder to the Kilkenny cat plan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Emma Crewe, The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work, page 68:",
          "text": "In the words of a member of the Press Gallery in 1967: 'Here we have 630 men and women, friendly – except for normal human antipathies – in private, and fighting like Kilkenny cats in public.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tenacious fighter."
      ],
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          "fighter",
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        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mutual assured destruction"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Kilkenny cat"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kilkenny cat"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Referring to an old story about two cats who fought to the death and ate each other up such that only their tails were left.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Kilkenny cats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Kilkenny cat (plural Kilkenny cats)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mutual assured destruction"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English countable nouns",
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          "ref": "1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 66:",
          "text": "Yet for my father the war was a source of considerable inner conflict; much as he detested Nazism he was psychologically incapable of desiring a British victory. (Very likely his secret wish was that Germany and Britain should do a Kilkenny cat act.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, →ISBN, page 29:",
          "text": "Even pirate crews and bands of robbers prefer a peaceful settled understanding as to the division of their plunder to the Kilkenny cat plan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Emma Crewe, The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work, page 68:",
          "text": "In the words of a member of the Press Gallery in 1967: 'Here we have 630 men and women, friendly – except for normal human antipathies – in private, and fighting like Kilkenny cats in public.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A tenacious fighter."
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "Kilkenny cat"
}