cat-in-the-pan

Updated: June 21, 2025

He's ugly enough, but I don't see how you're to do it, unless first of all you catch Whitmore and then force him to turn cat-in-the-pan, at the risk of his talking too much and with the certainty of dragging Isabel into the exposure. Even so, I doubt you'll get evidence. This man is a deal too shrewd to have done any of the forging himself.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Adventures of Harry Revel