词汇 | the cat on a hot tin roof |
释义 | (redirected from the cat on a hot tin roof)a cat on a hot tin roofOne who is anxious and unable to sit still or relax. A: "Why is Carrie pacing?" B: "She's waiting for the doctor to call with her test results, so she's been like a cat on a hot tin roof all day." cat on a hot tin roofA Southernism that meant someone who was on edge or nervous. The phrase survives as the title of Tennessee Williams's 1955 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama. |
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