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Something Our Parents Would Say Not Enough Room To Swing A Cat · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: our parents would say, My name is Harrow. Wow, this
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  Speaker 1: is a weird one. Not enough room to swing a
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  Speaker 1: cat sounds kind of strange, right, maybe disturbing in these
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  Speaker 1: modern days. Not enough room to swing the cat. Its
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  Speaker 1: origin is not disturbing, and it's really not out of place.
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  Speaker 1: It really does have a history. Not enough room to
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  Speaker 1: swing a cat. There are two historical explanations. One of
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  Speaker 1: its origins includes the open waters of our naval ships,
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  Speaker 1: those ships with sails. Discipline was often carried out with
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  Speaker 1: a whip that was called a cat a nine tail.
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  Speaker 1: If discipline was issued, it was never done so below
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  Speaker 1: the deck. There wasn't enough room to swing the cat. Today,
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  Speaker 1: if it's used, the meaning is not enough space, it's
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  Speaker 1: very tight, it's confined. The phrase is a good example
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  Speaker 1: of how language preserves hidden pieces of history. Most of
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  Speaker 1: us don't even know that, especially since a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it comes from harsh or practice realities. Something that was
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  Speaker 1: often spoken during moments of discipline on a ship actually
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  Speaker 1: softened up to harmless exaggeration. In fact, most people who
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  Speaker 1: still use not enough room to swing a cat don't
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  Speaker 1: even know it's got a connection to ships with sails.
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  Speaker 1: British sailors were the very first to introduce it, and
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  Speaker 1: then it was introduced to the colonists and immigrants by
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  Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds. It was that thing that people were
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  Speaker 1: saying in this new place called America, not enough room
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  Speaker 1: to swing a cat. Something our parents would say, my
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