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Kenny1999 Posted 12 years ago
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what does this contextmean

About last idea, forget it, with your internet speed you would fill HDD in a hurry or would have to move cursor around the screen like a cat around hot milk.

What does this context mean. I don't understand. Cat around hot milk?
  

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I guess that it is improper English. I will be surprised if you get the answer that it is correct. By the way, you shouldn't give hot milk to a cat.

  • I guess that it is improper English.
  • I will be surprised if you get the answer that it is correct.
  • By the way, you shouldn't give hot milk to a cat.
  • It would run up and down and possibly make carpets, floor, etc.
  • dirty (you know, diarrhoea).
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I guess that it is improper English. I will be surprised if you get the answer that it is correct.

By the way, you shouldn't give hot milk to a cat. It would run up and down and possibly make carpets, floor, etc. dirty (you know, diarrhoea).

I'm neither a teacher nor a native English speaker.
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It's not an expression that I know. I could only guess that it means "cautiously", "circumspectly", "expectantly", or something of that nature (i.e. the cat wants the milk, but has to wait). As far as I can tell, the author of your sentence thinks it means something like "frantically". Perhaps he or she is getting mixed up with the expression "like a cat on a hot tin roof", which means "in an agit

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