What is the meaning of the expression "ashes cat" ?

Question

I am researching the expression "ashes cat" and would be very interested in any response from any person who can assist by providing me with their experience of the uses and meanings of it.

Are you at all aware of the use of this expression?
What is your understanding of the meaning of this expression?
From where do you think it originates?
Can you direct me to either a person or publication that may assist me?
Etc., ..............

Thank you, in advance, for your time and effort all this is truly appreciated !

Answer 1

I love unusual phrases, but I hadn't heard this one before. Do you have a usage example? If you do, email it to me. My curiousity has been piqued and I have pretty good luck pinning phrases down.

That said, I couldn't pinpoint many references on the internet. I did find a horse born in 1993 named, "Ashes Cat."

While searching across the web, I did hit upon the Irish phrase, "ashypet" a term of mild disapproval referring to someone who is hogging the fire. The origin is "peata an ghriosaigh" ('pet of the ashes'), which is a literal English translation is the Gaelic equivalent of Cinderella. (In this regard, the phrase I saw more frequently was The phrase I saw defined more frequently was "cat's paw" which means to be the tool of another, the medium of doing another's dirty work.)

I also found this Aesop's fable:

THE CAT, THE MONKEY, AND THE CHESTNUTS

A Cat and a Monkey were sitting one day in the chimney corner watching some chestnuts which their master
had laid down to roast in the ashes. The chestnuts had begun to burst with the heat, and the Monkey said to
the Cat:

"It is plain that your paws were made especially for pulling out those chestnuts. Do you reach forth and
draw them out. Your paws are, indeed, exactly like our master's hands."

The Cat was greatly flattered by this speech, and reached forward for the tempting chestnuts, but scarcely had she touched the hot ashes than she drew back with a cry, for she had burnt her paw; but he tried again, and managed to pull one chestnut out; then she pulled another, and a third, though each time she singed the hair on her paws.

When she could pull no more out she turned about and found that the Monkey had taken the time to crack the chestnuts and eat them.

Retrieved from "The Book of Fables: Chiefly from Aesop,"
by Aesop, published 1910, Houghton Mifflin and Company, pg. 41

Good luck in your search. And don't forget to email me the phrase in a sentence or post an addendum to your question.

Answer 2

WHO DREAMED THAT UP??????????