[post_page_title]”Cat got your tongue?”[/post_page_title]
“Cat got your tongue?” is what’s asked when someone remains unusually silent, or doesn’t answer a question. There are a few interesting speculations as to what the origins of this idiom is. The first time this phrase was used was in an American magazine in 1881, describing the saying as a child’s taunt.
There is the theory that it comes from the medieval era, where there was a fear of witches and their black cats. Alternatively, it is a reference to the cat-o’-nine-tails – a vicious whip used for flogging sailors in the English navy.
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