People often say that there is more than one way to skin a cat but...(see details for full question)?

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People often say that there is more than one way to skin a cat but what is the best way, why would ya want to skin a cat and who the hell skins a cat in the first place?

I'm not exactly an animal lover but that's just sick. lol

O.K. people I know that it's just an expression not to be taken literaly, neither was this question, it was intended to be more of a joke than anything. But here's another one, how did that saying start?

Answer 1

HI there....the history of the meaning/idiom SKIN THE CAT - According to Charles Earle Funk in "A Hog on Ice" (Harper & Row, New York, 1948) the expression "to skin the cat" refers to a boy's gymnastic trick: "In America, as any country boy knows, this means to hang by the hands from a branch or bar, draw the legs up through the arms and over the branch, and pull oneself up into a sitting position. As we must abide by the record, we cannot say positively that the name for this violent small-boy exercise is more than a century old, but it is highly likely that Ben Franklin or earlier American lads had the same name for it. No one got around to putting it into print until about 1845. One can't be sure why the operation was called 'skinning the cat,' but maybe some mother, seeing it for the first time, saw in it some resemblance to the physical operation of removing the pelt from a cat, first from the forelegs and down over the body." Mr. Funk doesn't say WHY anyone would actually skin a cat, but anyway.

"Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996) lists the expression "more than one way to skin a cat" but doesn't really address the origin. Mr. Titelman does say it dates back to the 1678: "MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A CAT --There are many ways to do something. The proverb appeared in John Ray's collection of English proverbs in 1678, and is first attested in the United States in 'John Smith's Letters' (1839). 'There are more ways to kill a cat besides choking him to death' is a variant of the saying. The words 'with butter' or 'on cream' may replace the words 'to death' in the latter version."

source: phrases.org.uk

Answer 2

Any apologist can best supply as well of an reply they may be able to create, as a result they're restrained due to the fact they don't have the direct connection to God for an reply. Yes this is a contradiction however then there are lots of. Overall like so much religions, they're not able to peer the complete snapshot. The more thing I've spotted is that almost all have the one motive of serving to those who have already got the religion, as a result they do not assume comply with up questions or a truly dialogue. Religion teaches individuals not to ask questions however to consider via unquestioning religion.

Answer 3

This is merely a term used, saying there is more ways than one to do things, It has nothing to do with cats.

Answer 4

they dont really mean it like you r taking it. it means there is always more than one way to do something, no matter what it is, hence the skinning a cat thing.

Answer 5

Well anyway I think anyone who skins animals should be skinned themselves.

Answer 6

China is doing this as we speak. They torture dogs and cats and it is deplorable and so inhumane. I can't stand it.

Answer 7

good question that's like when someone says there is a crap load of this how much is a crap load

Answer 8

Why would you think about stuff like that?!?!