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Cat-lap
Milk or weak tea, only fit for the cat to lap.
“A more accomplished old woman never drank cat-lap.” —Sir W.
Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xii.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Cat-lap from Infoplease:
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