kittle cattle

noun

Definitions

  1. Fickle, unmanageable people or things.

    • He had inherited his not inconsiderable fortune from an American cousin, who had in his time been a successful speculator—a speculator not exactly in crops, which are notoriously kittle-cattle, but in official crop reports.

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Vish — recursive loop

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