mouse-in-the-kitchen

Updated: August 15, 2026

The night nurses do not have a placid time of it if their patients are at the stage of recovery when spirits begin to rise and the early slumber-hour which the hospital rules prescribe is not welcome. String-actuated knaveries, more or less similar to the mouse-in-the-kitchen one, are always devised for the plaguing of a new night nurse.

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital