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单词 like the cat that ate the canary
释义

like the cat that ate the canary

idiom
US
(alsolike the cat that swallowed the canary);(UKlike the cat that got the cream)
extremelyhappyorsatisfied, or in a veryhappyorsatisfiedway:
When heaskedher on adateshe was like thecatthatatethecanary.
They weresmilinglike thecatthatswallowedthecanary.
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(Definition oflike the cat that ate the canaryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
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