Pronúncia: gát
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masculí i femení
- zoologia cat.
- [mascle] tomcat.
- gat salvatge wild cat.
- gat mesquer genet.
- orgue de gats col·loquial disorderly meeting.
- tenir set vides com els gats to have nine lives, be hard to kill.
- donar gat per llebre a algú to take someone in, pull the wool over someone's eyes, sell someone a pig in a poke.
- caure sempre de potes com els gats to always fall on one's feet.
- estar com el gat i el gos to live a cat and dog life.
- aquí hi ha gat amagat I smell a rat, there's something fishy here.
- gat escaldat, de l'aigua freda fuig once bitten twice shy.
- eren quatre gats there was hardly anybody there.
- semblar un gat escorxat to be nothing but skin and bone.
- gat vell figuradament old fox, crafty person, rascal.
- agafar el gat to get drunk.
- tenir el gat, (estar \ anar) gat to be drunk, be as drunk as a lord.
- escorxar el gat [dormir la mona] to sleep off one's drink.