01-04-2016, 09:15 PM
Cat's tail would make more sense to me, even though it looks more like rat's tails. In Dutch, there's an expression I'd translate as "to bind the bell to the cat" which means "to be the first one to start talking about a difficult situation".
Now, I haven't fully researched this yet, but according to one reliable source I just found, this expression has its origin in the first century Indian work You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Which I find very, very interesting. I'll need to look into it some more. Either way, the expression is a very old one, used already in the middle ages.
Now, I haven't fully researched this yet, but according to one reliable source I just found, this expression has its origin in the first century Indian work You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Which I find very, very interesting. I'll need to look into it some more. Either way, the expression is a very old one, used already in the middle ages.