For each gap, find a suitable word.
A cat's tale
On
___
waking up after a refreshing catnap, I had a brilliant idea;
I must have been grinning
like
___
a Cheshire cat because,
when my wife came
in
___
, she told me I looked like the cat
that stole the cream, which makes a change.
usually she criticizes my untidy appearance,
telling me I look like something the cat brought
in
___
.
At first
___
, she was a bit suspicious and quoted the old proverb,
'When the cat's
away
___
the mice will play'.
But she was soon reassured and when I told her my plan she
also began to look like the cat that ate the canary".
In
___
the beginning, she was so surprised she did not say a word.
I had to ask her, 'Has the cat got your tongue?'.
Then she told me the plan was the cat's whiskers - actually,
as she is American she said the cat's pajamas, but that still meant she
thought it was a great idea. From then
on
___
, she was like a cat
on
___
a hot tin roof, impatient for me to get started.
Of course she told me I didn't have a cat
in
___
hell's chance of making it work, but I said that
there was more than one way to skin a cat and that I would think
of
___
something.