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• Can’t dance and it’s too wet to plow.
When you can’t dance and it’s too to plow, you may as well do something because you can’t or don’t
have the opportunity to do anything else.
• Cat fur and kitty britches.
When I used to ask my grandma what was for dinner, she would say ‘cat fur and kitty britches’. This was
her Ozark way of telling me that I would get what she cooked. (Ozark is a region in the center of the
United States).
• Cat’s pajamas.
Something that is the cat’s pajamas is excellent.
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
If some one is caught with his or her hand in the cookie jar, he or she is caught doing something wrong.
• Charley horse.
A Charley horse is a stiff leg or a cramp, especially in the leg.
• Circle the wagons.
If you circle the wagons, you stop communicating with people who don’t think the same way as you to
avoid their ideas. It can also mean to bring everyone together to defend a group against an attack.
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