Meaning of city mouse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A city person; someone who has city ways.
   figuratively
2. A member of support personnel who remains at the base.
   figuratively, slang

Examples

“[…] before arriving, he'd never thought it would be spent as one of the city mice. Most of the McMurdoans never ranged more than walking distance from the largest town on the entire continent.”

“"[…] Maybe we'll run into some country mice." "Country mice?" "Some of the Mac-Town folks, out here on the ice. City mice stay at McMurdo, and country mice—"”

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