Idiom
tear a cat
Meaning
To overact; to violently rant and rave on stage.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The actor loves to tear a cat during his dramatic scenes.”
“The director told the lead actor to stop tearing a cat and perform the scene with more subtlety.”
“His tendency to tear a cat whenever he reached a monologue often distracted the audience from the play's underlying emotional depth.”
Examples
simple
“The actor loves to tear a cat during his dramatic scenes.”
contextual
“The director told the lead actor to stop tearing a cat and perform the scene with more subtlety.”
complex
“His tendency to tear a cat whenever he reached a monologue often distracted the audience from the play's underlying emotional depth.”
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