cat-and-mouse

cat-and-mouse (ktn-mous)

adj.

1. Playfully or teasingly cruel, as in prolonging the pain or torment of another: the cat-and-mouse tactics of the interrogators.

2. Of or involving a suspenseful and sometimes alternating relation beween hunter and hunted: "another cat-and-mouse thriller" (New York Times).

Translations

cat-and-mouse

adj to play cat-and-mouse or a cat-and-mouse game with somebody → mit jdm Katz und Maus spielen

cat-and-mouse [ˈkætˌəndˈmaus] adj to play a cat-and-mouse game with sb → giocare al gatto e al topo con qn

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cat-and-mouse [ˈkætˌəndˈmaus] adj to play a cat-and-mouse game with sb → giocare al gatto e al topo con qn