(AU, NZ) To regret; to feel self-pity.
(AU, NZ) To regret; to feel self-pity.
He kept school within six miles of Cooperstown, on the Burlington road, whipping the cat, just as young Munro did!
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To attempt to get work or money from someone who is too weak or poor to provide it.
There was a terrible "whipping of the cat, " as it is called, on the day the notes became due. This whipping the cat is nothing more than a parcel of traders puffing at one another's heels . . . to borrow money.
(UK, Australia, obsolete) To practice extreme parsimony.
seeing that the Committee has already practically defeated the principle that any new business shall have any special exemption under this Bill, I do not propose to take up further time in “whipping the cat” on that question.