The Collaborative International Dictionary
Margay \Mar"gay\, margay cat \margay cat\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small American wild cat ( Felis wiedi syn. Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.
Usage examples of "long-tailed cat".
Every man was born with an ego, and they're like the proverbial long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Tad apparently was not only like a cat in his movements, but also as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs as the old saying goes.
It is very just and becoming in a long-tailed cat to have a surname, but it would be very ostentatious, and even dishonorable, in a Manx.
That's what they wanted you for, an' that's why you were all over the neighborhood, walkin' around as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs.
Against the side of the terrace, as if materializing into solidity at that moment, appeared two hundred pounds of supple, rangy, long-tailed cat .
Against the side of the terrace, as if materializing into solidity at that moment, appeared two hundred pounds of supple, rangy, long-tailed cat .
Because, lady, right now I feel as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs.
The water was not deep over the road, but I was nervous as the proverbial long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
After its initial panic the Library was now as alert and jittery as a long-tailed cat in a rocking-chair factory.
Even the new dead are jumpier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.