Meaning of not enough room to swing a cat | Babel Free

Definitions

Very little space (available) (of a very small room).

informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1665, Richard Kephale Medela Pestilentiae They had not space enough (according to the vulgar saying) to swing a Cat in.”

“My own apartment, to take a case in point, was a sort of hermit's cell in which one would have been hard put to it to swing a cat, even a smaller one than Augustus, not of course that one often wants to do much cat-swinging.”

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