CAT'S CRADLE


Meaning of CAT'S CRADLE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A flashlight showed the creature roaring, teeth entangled in a cat's cradle of rope.

As the drop-ship yawed away, fleeing, a hem of the cat's cradle dipped towards it.

But not for long, for they make another pledge by tying themselves together in a cat's cradle .

Gazzer looked down into that cat's cradle of turning metal.

I sat on my cot, playing cat's cradle with handcuffs, and kept quiet.

The boy stroked the girl's side, twisting the walkman lead around his fingers in a one-handed cat's cradle .

Webs of dust made a cat's cradle about the space.

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