There is more than one way to skin a cat

This is a money digging world of ours and, as it is said, ‘there are more ways than one to skin a cat,’ so there are more ways than one of digging for money.
[1854 S. Smith 'Way down East viii. 166]

So you see, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
[1918 W. Faulkner Letter 17 Oct. in J. G. Watson Thinking of Home (1992)]

The Mayor [in a 1999 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer] knows that the statement ‘There's more than one way to skin a cat’ is factually accurate.
[2001 K. Topping Slayer (rev. ed.) 232]

Related to: ways and means

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