Kitty corner, which is used in the U.S. to mean diagonally opposite is a corruption of cater-corner.
Cater itself is an obsolete word meaning four. Compare the french quatre.
This is not really an idiom. Baying is a continuous barking by hounds. To keep something at bay means to prevent its escape by surrounding it with barking dogs, or by extension, to prevent a problem from getting out of control by maintaining constant vigilance.
Palestinian and Persian
food
Meaning he will help you out.
It is just an idiom and has no history.
Kitty Corner is diagonal from the object you are describing. Catty Corner is directly opposite to the Kitty Corner position. Therefore, Catty Corner to Kitty Corner, is Kitty Corner again, if you were in a square. Then take a polygon - say a Heptagon. Kitty Corner to one area and Caddy Corner from that point could be two different positions.
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To be exposed
Origin "up a storm"
Variant of the word kitty-corner
No
This is not really an idiom. Baying is a continuous barking by hounds. To keep something at bay means to prevent its escape by surrounding it with barking dogs, or by extension, to prevent a problem from getting out of control by maintaining constant vigilance.
Kitty-corner. In a square, a line drawn between one corner and the corner which is not adjacent to it.
Palestinian and Persian
affrica (iraq
grab a bite
It was in 1960 in America