"bell the cat" meaning in Anglais

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Verb

Audio: En-au-bell the cat.ogg Forms: to bell the cat [infinitive], bells the cat [present, third-person, singular], belled the cat [preterite], belled the cat [participle, past], belling the cat [participle, present]
  1. Attacher le grelot. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: fr-bell_the_cat-en-verb-GKp8GFYw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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    "D’une fable d’Ésope dans laquelle des souris veulent mettre une cloche autour du cou du chat pour avertir les autres."
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