cat-and-mouse adj.
折磨人的, 一捕一放之捉弄人的
- The most prolonged of these cat-and-mouse games involved a former employee suspected of rewriting plant logs the morning after the disaster.
- They then helped move so quickly from confrontation with the Lebanese Shiites holding American hostages to a game of diplomatic cat-and-mouse over a possible hostage release that they probably have lost any chance to make the murderers of Marine Lt.
- Coast Guard efforts in this cat-and-mouse game have had limited success.
- The celebrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip took on a cat-and-mouse style, as youths violated curfews to send balloons aloft with outlawed Palestinian flags or sing patriotic songs, then ran and hid when army patrols arrived, Arab witnesses said.
- "She's played such a cat-and-mouse game with her advisers."
- Why the soldiers approached and left in the latest cat-and-mouse game was not clear, but the villagers viewed called it a retreat by the enemy and a victory for themselves.
- Saudi and Iraqi pilots are playing cat-and-mouse games along the border virtually every day, the commander of a Saudi air base said Tuesday.
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