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Whats the purpose of the senate hearing today ? (Original Post) Beachnutt Mar 2021 OP
I'm not going to bell the cat taxi Mar 2021 #1

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1. I'm not going to bell the cat
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 02:34 PM
Mar 2021
To bell the cat means to attempt or agree to attempt an impossibly difficult task that if achieved, will benefit the entire community. The idiom bell the cat comes from a fable attributed to Aesop called the Mice in Council. In the fable, a group of mice decide that the best way to deal with a murderous cat is to put a bell around his neck so that he can no longer sneak up on the mice. The trouble comes when it’s time to decide which mouse will be the one to risk his life to put the bell around the cat’s neck. None of the mice will volunteer, and the moral of the fable is don’t only consider the outcome when making plans; the plan itself must be achievable or it is useless. Today, to bell the cat means to risk one’s well-being in order to perform a difficult task that if achieved, will benefit the entire community. Related terms are bells the cat, belled the cat, belling the cat.


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