It is a fable, but you can use it to describe someone who is either a "city mouse" or a "country mouse" if you want to.
Cats and the humans.
The fable is "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse." It tells the story of a town mouse who visits his cousin, a country mouse, and experiences the simple but peaceful life in the countryside. However, when they are both threatened by the presence of a cat, the town mouse realizes the value of safety and security in his own home.
As ___ as ___ is not an idiom. Remember - AS = A Simile!The proper simile would be "as quiet as a mouse" or "as quiet as new-fallen snow."
Danger Mouse - 1981 Multiplication Fable 6-5 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:G
in the basement of the pet shop
The fable you are thinking of is a children's tale from Germany called "Cat and Mouse." Here is the link to read the story: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/cat.html#meier
in the forest
Fable
It means you are very poor.
Two animals in an Aesop fable could be the lion and the mouse. The lion helps the mouse out of a trap when the mouse promises to help the lion if he was in trouble. The lion doesn't believe that the mouse could ever do anything for him, but sure enough the lion gets caught in a trap, and the mouse is there to chew up the rope holding the lion in the trap.
"The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" is one of Aesop's Fables.
Aesop's The mouse and the lion