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"text": "Careful not to draw deep blood, I cat and moused him for another moment or two as the audience stared in awe.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of cat-and-mouse"
],
"links": [
[
"cat-and-mouse",
"cat-and-mouse#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "cat and mouse"
}
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