Übersetzung für '
cat and mouse' von Englisch nach Deutsch
SYNO | cat and mouse | cat and rat |
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- They were known as cat and mouse stations. Target-finding aircraft controlled by Walmer were used extensively during the Battle of the Ruhr in March 1943.
- In "The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries" Season 1 episode 10, "A Game of Cat and Mouse", "Red Harvest" is quoted as is "The Maltese Falcon".
- In 1913 the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913 (nicknamed the "Cat and Mouse Act") changed policy.
- After a cat-and-mouse period of some two hours, she noted the convoy consisted of six ships: a large tanker, three freighters, and two escorts.
- Blix personally admonished Saddam for "cat and mouse" games and warned Iraq of "serious consequences" if it attempted to hinder or delay his mission.
- After suffragette leaders were threatened, activists formed an all-female close protection unit to protect the leaders of the Women's Social and Political Union both from harassment by the general public and from arrest under the so-called Cat and Mouse Act.
- This trend of cat-and-mouse extends even to the present day, and the various techniques used to disarm munitions are not publicized.
- Roger Shackleforth is desperately in love with Leila, an aloof tease who plays cat-and-mouse with his affections.
- Other Van Beuren cartoons featured "Tom and Jerry" (not the cat and mouse, but a "Mutt and Jeff"-like human duo,) and Otto Soglow's comic strip character "The Little King".
- That same year, he starred in the thriller "Nighthawks", in which he plays a New York city cop who plays a cat-and-mouse game with a foreign terrorist, played by Rutger Hauer.
- Later, the Asquith government enacted the Cat and Mouse Act, which allowed similar releases for other suffragettes facing ill-health due to hunger strikes.
- Batsmen and bowlers will often also engage in a game of "cat and mouse", in which the bowler varies his tactics to try and trap and dismiss the batsman, but the batsman also keeps adjusting his tactics in response.
- "Tom and Jerry" are cat and mouse cartoon characters, "Tom Cat" and "Jerry Mouse", that debuted in 1940. The names are derived from a humoristic novel originally created by Pierce Egan in 1821.
- No longer trusting anyone within "the Company", Turner plays a cat-and-mouse game with Higgins, the deputy director of the CIA's New York division.
- Television critic Ben Falk (no relation) added that Falk "created an iconic cop … who always got his man (or woman) after a tortuous cat-and-mouse investigation".
- The act's nickname of "Cat and Mouse Act", referring to the way the government seemed to play with prisoners as a cat may with a captured mouse, underlined how the cruelty of repeated releases and re-imprisonments turned the suffragettes from targets of scorn to objects of sympathy.
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