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One with a great seat, supposedly
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catbird
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1731, common name for the North American thrush ( Dumetella Carolinensis ), so called from its warning cry, which resembles that of a cat; from cat (n.) + bird (n.1). Catbird seat is a 19c. Dixieism, popularized by Brooklyn Dodgers baseball announcer Red ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Either of two species of American mockingbird relatives, the grey catbird, (taxlink Dumetella carolinensis species noshow=1), and the black catbird, (taxlink Melanoptila glabrirostris species noshow=1). 2 Any of four species of Australasian bowerbirds ...
Usage examples of catbird.
He thought about the piroque waiting in the darkness of the snag-piles on Catbird Island, and of the butler lying dead in the storeroom, a glass in his hand.
The rest of the Corvines and Catbirds were burning space beside him, an advancing battle line of the most awesome warriors and fighting machines the Commonwealth had ever produced.
But that afternoon, Beethoven had to compete with mewling catbirds and squawking blue jays and the dolorous sighs of mourning doves.
In those days, when networks consumed money as if there were no tomorrow, correspondents found their own accommodation and were reimbursed More recently, with leaner budgets and accountants in catbird seats, The Evening News 319 the network supplied living quarters--of lesser quality and cheaper.
He singled out Hawk and his tail, Adept, in their Catbird, their combat stances abandoned as they struggled to remain on their feet amid the smells and tastes of two lost engines, severe electronics damage, and hull-integrity failure.
Adept had gotten their Catbird moving again, and she and Hawk were attempting to pursue, but with only a single working engine their effort was clearly futile.
An alert catbird discovered them and began to scold from one of the oaks.
Only a catbird, she told herself, though that was unlikely at this hour.
He went through his reper toire of catbird calls and whippoorwills and sparrows, and then started all over again.
And sending in the spies appealed to me more than doing it myself, sort of like Desmond in the catbird seat.
The leaders of revolutions that win always wind up in the catbird seat.
Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.
Needless to say, when we finally come to power, and at the rate the Party is booming that won't be long, we'll be in the catbird seat.
But from my perch in this plastic catbird seat out here on the southernmost rim of Key West, the barometer looks to be falling so fast on all fronts that it no longer matters.
I settled back in the catbird seat and listened to the radio for a while, feeling drowsy as the sun got hotter and hotter.