suffering cats

English

Interjection

suffering cats

1. Alternative form of suffering catfish
   • 1917 July, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 181, column 3:

     Suffering cats!! My shoes became full of carpet tacks and I leapt so high that me head nearly hit the ceiling.

   • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist:

     "By the Harvest of Souls, hurry! Hurry! Here's the boy saying he's been eating, the stuff we don't mention. Suffering cats! I'll go mad!"

   • 1952, Manning Coles, The exploits of Tommy Hambledon:

     "Oh, suffering cats, they've started already," said Becker under his breath.