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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

By my cat\'s whiskers

English answer:

I swear by my cat\'s whiskers

Added to glossary by Mohamed Fouda
Feb 13, 2022 18:46
2 yrs ago
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English term

By my cat's whiskers

English Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
A repeated phrase by Catboy, a character in the series PJ Masks.

I don't fully understand what it means, but he keeps repeating it somehow.
Responses
4 +5 I swear by my cat's whiskers

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I swear by my cat's whiskers

Perhaps just this character's personal choice of a venerated object to swear by.
Note from asker:
@philgoddard Maybe! And the other characters keep saying phrases such as Gasping Gecko, Slithering serpents, Cool Chameleons, Fluttering feathers, etc.
Peer comment(s):
agree philgoddard : I think it's just a nonsense exclamation. He's a boy in a cat mask.
10 mins
Could well be. I didn't mean a real oath, either, more like an exclamation of surprise, as in "by my cat's whiskers, look who has come!"
agree Natalia Potashnik
3 hrs
agree Clauwolf
16 hrs
agree James A. Walsh
21 hrs
agree Yvonne Gallagher : no "venerated object". Just the whiskers of his cat costume/persona so even more silly/comicmeans I swear
3 days 18 hrs
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