like a cat in a strange garret

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  1. 1.

    Having a feeling of uncertainty and misapprehension due to being in an unfamiliar situation.

    美国

    1862 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Vermont Board of Education Mothers cannot conveniently leave home to get about, and fathers, to use their own expression, "feel like a cat in a strange garret," when screwed up in one of the seats to the school house.