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fredpuli47 | 08:48 Tue 09th Feb 2010 | Phrases & Sayings
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. Why a cat? Was skinning cats ever a regular human activity? How old is the saying?
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Apparently goes back to the 1600s. A skinned cat could be fobbed off as being a rabbit to the unwary. Its skin could be dyed and sold as a more expensive fur. So the expression became applicable to swindling a gullible person.
11:34 Tue 09th Feb 2010
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More info here, Fred...http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mo
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11:52 Tue 09th Feb 2010
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mo
r1.htm
11:52 Tue 09th Feb 2010
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Oh, dear, I'd better leave it at that!
11:53 Tue 09th Feb 2010
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The correct quotation is,
There's more than one way to kill a cat; you don't have to choke it with creaam.
12:29 Tue 09th Feb 2010

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