curiosity killed a cat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
proverb
Example Sentences
- "They say curiosity killed a cat once, so I will take warning and let things remain as they are."
- "A distracted mother having answered a half a hundred queries in half an hour, at last implored her bright little eight-year-old to desist for a while. “Curiosity killed a cat, you know, dear,” she explained with half humorous philosophy. The little boy’s tongue was still for perhaps the space of three minutes. Then came a childish voice, low and gentle, but eager: “Motherkins, please tell me! What was it the cat wanted to know?”"
- "When you give somebody a present from a foreign land, you’d think that would provoke some questions, even if only “How much?” Curiosity killed a cat, Aunt Harriet used to say, but she never failed to ask me where I’d been, and with whom."