Skin a "cat"

From: Richard Leiter (rleiter@law.howard.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 03 1997 - 10:30:05 PDT

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I am looking for the origin of the expression "more than one way to skin a
'cat'." If I am not mistaken, the "cat" in the expression is actually a
nautical or military term and actually has nothing to do with animals.

I've exhausted our local resources, including the OED. No clues.

Thanks.

Rich

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