"the cat got your tongue?" 1895

[Stephen Goranson]

OED has 1911

The Atchison Daily Globe, (Atchison, KS) Tuesday, March 26, 1895; pg. 2; Issue
5,404; col D [19th C US Newspapers]
     City News A Collection of Important Paragraphs for Your Consideration

What has become of the old fashioned woman who, when she caught her boy
stealing
preserves, and asked him for an explanation, said, "Well, has the cat got your
tongue?"

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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