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Ready to learn some more Australian idioms?
Idiom – To see which way the cat jumps.
Meaning – To postpone making a decision until you have seen how things are developing.
Alternative – There are two other ways of expresing this idiom: if we are not sure about what decision to take, we could say we are “in two minds” or that we are “weighing the pro’s and con’s”.
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But why does it refer to a cat? Is it a lion. Like you run if it attacks you and walk away slowly if it goes after someone or something else. Or are you tracking something and getting info from a cat jumping in a certain direction? Maybe something else. I just want to know what caused those words to make the idiom.