No room to swing a cat referers to a very small area.
Your are in a very small area, a small room
There is a dog and cat in the room. You're naming them separately therefore you don't need the sentence to be plural.
a male cat
The cat was often aloof, always walking into the other room when guests arrived.
It means Ash Cat.
Male and Females together by room. Also can be girls in one room boys in the very next room
That would be the "cat 'o nine tails", a whip used on sailors in the bad old days of sailing ships and press-ganged sailors. As you can imagine, it takes a certain amount of room to get a good back swing on even a relatively short whip, and if there isn't space to get that back swing, there isn't enough room to swing a cat.
About nine feet by nine feet. The expression 'enough room to swing a/the cat' harks back to the space needed, behind the flogger, to accommodate the back-swing the cat-of-nine-tails lash that was used to flog sailors, back in the day
When there is not much space, a person may say there isn't enough room to swing a cat. The phrase has been used throughout history as a way of saying the room is small or the apartment is small.
From the British (Royal) Navy and Army and refers to there being not enough room to effectively swing a cat o' nine tails, commonly shortened to 'the cat', which is a type of multi-tailed whipping device that originated as an implement for severe physical punishment.Space on a ship or army billet was often cramped and often the complaint was that there was not enough room to swing a 'cat'.
"You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a moron" is a figure of speech. It means you can't do something stupid without expecting it to affect yourself.
Swing Cat's Jamboree - 1938 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Approved
The cat referred to is the cat o' nine tails, a whip with nine strands attached to a single handle. Whipping with the "cat" was a favored form of punishment in Britain's Royal Navy and other navies in the age of sail. Punishment was carried out on deck in full view of the crew. Of course, the smaller the ship the less space there was available to administer punishment. A ship of the line or a frigate would have plenty of room to whip the offending sailor, but a very small ship may not have room to "swing a cat" without hitting part of the ship.
Swing Cat's Jamboree - 1938 was released on: USA: 6 August 1938
The quote "The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" means not to waste time looking for something when it is not there. It can refer to looking for meanings or things.
There is a dog and cat in the room. You're naming them separately therefore you don't need the sentence to be plural.
The origin is unclear of the saying that includes "swing a dead cat." Some think it dates back to a popular TV show, "Cheers," and others believe it is from the 1600s, or from the UK. The saying is "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting two people you know" or some other object.
Confucius said "The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat." The phrase means that you cannot find something that is not there or that you cannot find something when it did not exist to begin with.