>when the idiom gets used ironically so often that the actual non-ironic use of the idiom is forgotten
WHAT'S THE FUCKING NAME, user. WHAT DOES CAT'S DON'T DANCE MEAN
EX: ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN NO LONGER AN IDIOM MEANING DOGS ARE INNOCENT THAT ALSO FUNCTIONS AS AN INDICTMENT AGAINST CORRUPTIBLE HUMAN BEINGS JUST THE NAME OF A MOVIE
THE IRONY IS COMPLETELY LOST
ANOTHER EXAMPLE: MULTICULTURALISM USED TO BE A PATRONIZING IRONIC MESSAGE NOW TAKEN FOR GRANTED AS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF EVERY SOCIETY
WILL SOMEBODY FILL ME IN HERE WHAT THE FUCK DOES "CAT'S DON'T DANCE" MEAN????
IIRC, the title is a play on the title of some other musical, but I can't remember which.
Jaxson Gutierrez
Pfft, I bet you don't even know the meaning of "plumbers don't wear ties".
Josiah Morgan
The original meaning had a lot to do with the polio outbreaks of that time period. It loosely translated means, cats are a disease. It directly translates into "gas the cats. Feline war now"
Noah Morgan
I bet he doesn't know the meaning of "that's the bees knees" either.
Brandon Green
White Men Can't Dance?
Sebastian Watson
>all caps Congratulations, you've lost any chance of anyone taking you seriously
Lucas Wood
Cats don't dance and your mama don't rock n' roll.
Asher Collins
It's a reference to witch craft. The idea of a cat dancing is attributed to witches causing their familiars to scare animals on people's farms. See the original telling of the Hey Diddle diddle rhyme
>Heigh diddle daddle >The Cat's fiddle Faddle Fiddle faddle referring to dancing. >The cows jumped over the moon Scaring cows. >The little dog laughed to see such craft The little dog here is Canis Minor, the star, happy to see witchcraft. >The dish ran about like a spoon The Dish is a an old term for a milk maid and the Spoon, for a stupid man, saying the "dancing cat's" portent of witchcraft has caused all this turmoil.
As the rise of science and reason led to the decline of belief in witch craft, "Cat's don't dance" was a phrase used as a nod to the idea that witchcraft is a thing.
So this movie's conclusion that cats do dance is saying witchcraft and Superstition is in fact real and presented to us in easily to digest forms in movies.
Protect your children.
Eli Collins
we can dance if we want to we can leave your cats behind
Jordan Hughes
Just watched this movie for the first time the other day. Didn't expect it to be as good as it was. Kind of blew me away really.
Christian Russell
Isn't it "The cat and the fiddle"?
Samuel Reed
None of this is true. Complete fabrication, unsourced, and garbage.
