pace around hot porridge like a cat
pace around hot porridge like a cat
To speak vaguely or euphemistically so as to avoid talking directly about an unpleasant or sensitive topic. The phrase is Scandinavian in origin. Don't pace around hot porridge like a cat—just tell me the truth. Why are you pacing around hot porridge like a cat? Are you leaving our company?
See also: around, cat, hot, like, pace, porridge
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- beat about the bush
- beat around the bush
- not beat about the bush
- not beat around the bush
- come to a bad end
- come to a bad/sticky end
- long about
- along about
- about last night...
- be a fate worse than death