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This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: "That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?" The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke.
But the bigger question is: When lynching mobs get political patronage profusely, who will dare to bell the cat?
Didn't she have the social and moral responsibility to bell the cat and rescue his victims?
Someone has to bell the cat and the big question is: Who?
It is time to bell the cat and end the bogie of extremist elements.
Perhaps it is time for me to bell the cat. For many years now, there have been rumblings of discontentment with this august body that is formed to register medical practitioners and regulate medical practice.
No one to bell the cat, breathe life into the basic law
Which leader has the requisite capability, competence, character, composure, clarity and political will to bell the cat and restructure Nigeria in a way that it will operate as a true Federalism?
But, alas, one question remained: Who will bell the cat or how to bell the cat?Thus, a grand master-plan was left asunder with this unanswered question, leaving behind a big problem unsolved: Transfixed, a 'ready, steady, go'stood standstill.
A few minutes into the informal meeting at the gathering, attended by 17 state unit members, it was clear that everyone wanted Srinivasan to resign but none was ready to bell the cat.
At the Valdai dinner, it fell to Timothy Coulter, a Harvard professor, to bell the cat, to speak truth to power.
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- To bear with
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- To beat about
- To beat about the bush
- To beat down
- To beat into
- To beat off
- To beat out
- To beat out of
- To beat the dust
- To beat the hoof
- To beat the rap
- To beat the record
- To beat the wing
- To beat time
- To beat to a mummy
- To beat up
- To beat up and down
- To beat up for recruits
- To become of
- To beg (one) for a fool
- To beg the question
- to begin with
- To believe in
- To believe on
- To bell the cat
- To bend the brow
- To bid beads
- To bid defiance
- To bid defiance to
- To bid fair
- To bid welcome
- To bide tryst
- To bill and coo
- To bind over
- To bind to
- To bind up in
- To bite in
- To bite the dust
- To bite the ground
- To bite the thumb at
- To bite the tongue
- to blame
- To blaze away
- To blear the eye of
- To bless from
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- To blow hot and cold
- To blow off
- To blow one's own trumpet
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- to beat the band
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- to beat the band
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- to beat the living daylights out of
- To beat the rap
- To beat the record
- To beat the wing
- To beat time
- To beat to a mummy
- To beat up
- To beat up and down
- To beat up for recruits
- to beat/flog a dead horse
- To become of
- To beg (one) for a fool
- To beg the question
- To beg the question
- to beggar description
- to begin with
- to begin with
- to begin with
- to begin with
- to begin with
- To believe in
- To believe on
- To bell the cat
- to bellow like a bull
- to bend someone's ear
- To bend the brow
- to bend/lean over backward
- To bid beads
- To bid defiance
- To bid defiance to
- To bid fair
- To bid welcome
- to bide one's time
- To bide tryst
- To bill and coo
- To bind over
- To bind to
- To bind up in
- To bite in
- to bite off more than one can chew
- to bite someone's head off
- to bite the bullet
- To bite the dust
- To bite the dust
- To bite the ground
- to bite the hand that feeds you
- To bite the thumb at
- To bite the tongue
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