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Idiom

cat's meow

Meaning

A self-satisfied person.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He thinks he is the cat's meow in that new suit.”

“She acts like the cat's meow just because she got a small promotion at work.”

“Despite his lack of actual experience, he struts around the office as if he were the cat's meow.”

Examples

simple

“He thinks he is the cat's meow in that new suit.”

contextual

“She acts like the cat's meow just because she got a small promotion at work.”

complex

“Despite his lack of actual experience, he struts around the office as if he were the cat's meow.”

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