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tear a cat

verb

Definitions

  1. To overact

    To overact; to violently rant and rave on stage.

    • Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could play / Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.
    • Sirha is this you would rend and teare the Cat / Upon a Stage, and now march like drown'd rat?
    • Till, in his periwig combustion / Will. Shakespeare sounds like Irish fustian, / In which Macready tears a cat, / And Shiel, the patriot, writes so pat;

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