tear a cat

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tear a cat

verb tears a cat · tearing a cat · tore a cat · torn a cat

  1. idiomatic, obsolete To overact; to violently rant and rave on stage. Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could play / Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.

    Similar: chew the scenery, ham, ham it up, melodramatize, overact

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@misc{tear_a_cat_2026,
  title = {tear a cat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tear%20a%20cat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}