Synonyms for cat-and-mouse

Grammar : Noun

Définition of cat-and-mouse

As in waiting game : noun watchful waiting

Example sentences :

She had been playing with him––playing with him cat-and-mouse fashion.
Extract from : « Once to Every Man » by Larry Evans

Evidently, he must play the cat-and-mouse act about the piles of supplies and machinery.
Extract from : « Panther Eye » by Roy J. Snell

At least, I haven't got that cat-and-mouse kind of patience.
Extract from : « Regiment of Women » by Clemence Dane

It was like playing a game of cat-and-mouse with him, Wilson Lamb, the cat.
Extract from : « Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 » by Various

Did it mean that, after all, he had been playing at cat-and-mouse with her, as she had at first feared?
Extract from : « The White Moll » by Frank L. Packard

It was a sort of defiance that he was throwing at me, an ultimatum that I should either end my cat-and-mouse game, or let him go.
Extract from : « The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice » by V. Sackville West

I thought the agony was over, but I didn't give Small credit for cat-and-mouse tendencies.
Extract from : « Fore! » by Charles Emmett Van Loan

The cat-and-mouse game with the other sex is a good game; but I can play your head off at it.
Extract from : « Heartbreak House » by George Bernard Shaw

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