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cat on a hot tin roof. Best known today as the title of Ten- nessee Williams’s famous play, the expression has been in wide use in America since the turn of the 19th century. Like a cat on a hot tin roof derives from a similar British phrase, like a cat on hot bricks, which was first recorded about 1880 and also means someone ill at ease, uncomfortable, not at home in a place or situation. |