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Scaredy-cat!

6/18/2014

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Our dog Maggie is scared of EVERYTHING!  Sometimes we take her for a walk and she gets startled by a small leaf. She's a very silly girl. One thing she's extremely scared of is the iron. In the mornings when my husband irons his clothes for work, she gets so scared of the noise from the iron that she jumps on top of me or hides under the blanket. Yesterday morning my husband called her a "scaredy-cat," which inspired me to do a posting on the meaning of the idiom "scaredy-cat."

Most cats scare easily or "jump" as soon as they hear noise or sense movement. When we call someone a "scaredy-cat" it means that person get scared easily or is afraid of something.

(1) "You're afraid of thunder? You're such a scaredy-cat!"
(2) "Tracy went camping all by herself. She's definitely not a scaredy-cat"
(3) "My son is too much of a scaredy-cat to skip class."

Although "scaredy-cat" means something, the word "scaredy" can never be used on its own as it doesn't have any meaning when used by itself.

Do you think you're a scaredy-cat?


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