Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Playfully or teasingly cruel, as in prolonging the pain or torment of another.
- adjective Of or involving a suspenseful and sometimes alternating relation between hunter and hunted.
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- adjective idiomatic
suspenseful , involving alternating roles of attack and defence. - noun Alternative form of
cat and mouse .
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Examples
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At the same time, the Internet has also stepped up the cat-and-mouse game, allowing watchdogs to uncover fraudulent claims much faster and mobilize a more effective response.
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But posts on popular the Chinese blog site Sina. com did ... before -- in the blink of an eye -- they were taken down and a high-tech game of cat-and-mouse between the bloggers and the censors ensued.
Gilliam Collinsworth Hamilton: China's Waist-High Fence Gilliam Collinsworth Hamilton 2010
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But his most recent two near-future books have a very different tack: highlighting people using technology in purposeful, directed ways with very human expressive motives: making movies and playing political cat-and-mouse.
Slow Tuesday Night 2010
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"U.S. efforts have helped to spur isolation, but I think there is still a cat-and-mouse aspect to North Korean illicit financial activity," Juan Zarate, a White House counterterrorism official until 2009, said Thursday.
Cables Say Syria, Iran Illegally Moved Cash to North Korea Thomas Catan 2011
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He's become obsessed with her, and begins stalking her in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game which can only end badly.
Hilary Swank Will Get Terrorized By Jeffrey Dean Morgan In ‘The Resident’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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As budding romance turns to a game of psychotic cat-and-mouse, the jump scares escalates into scenes of horror that revulsed some moviegoers and thrilled others.
Extremes on Screen Steve Dollar 2011
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One example: in a cat-and-mouse follow scene in a market, running divided from a bad guys, Tony Jarr jumps over a tables, stalls, as well as cars (!) with Jackies comic timing.
Jaylins Blog Blog Archive Watch Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior ... admin 2009
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“I wanted to avoid that cat-and-mouse game,” says Veach.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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One example: in a cat-and-mouse follow scene in a market, running divided from a bad guys, Tony Jarr jumps over a tables, stalls, as well as cars (!) with Jackies comic timing.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Eric Gravning is penning the script, which will be an origin story for the feuding cat-and-mouse.
‘Tom And Jerry’ Headed To Big Screen As Live-Action/CGI Film » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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