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Meanings of keep cats in English

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Usage of keep cats in English
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Do you think you could keep cats inside all the time?
Radio NZ
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But mice eat bumble-bees and cats eat mice and old maids keep cats.
The Golden Road
3
My great-aunt kept chairs the way some people keep cats.
The Irish Times
4
There are sounds of clattering, the mewing of cats-she'sthe sort of woman who would keep cats.
The thieves of manhattan
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You can't keep cats and dogs in Peter Cooper, but there's nothing in the rules about lizards.
It's like this, cat
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Did you ever keep cats?
On the Edge of the War Zone / From the Battle of the Marne to th...
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Ms Midgen said a good way to keep cats and dogs cooler is to put ice cubes in their water.
Radio NZ
8
If there is a fault of any kind in the arrangements, it is that they do not keep cats enough.
Essays on Life, Art and Science
9
They keep cats there in the summer, and feed and pet 'em, and doll 'em up with ribbons and collars.
Anne's House of Dreams
10
And that is why we all keep cats and hens, who eat them, you know, just like the Arabs do.
Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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Some idiot has invented a "cat teaser" to put on fences to keep cats from sitting there and singing.
Peck's Compendium of Fun / Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, ...
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The Audubon Society has urged people to keep cats indoors because the felines kill and eat "many, many songbirds".
The Guardian
13
They have fences around so that large animals don't come in, but, apparently, the fences were not secure enough to keep cats out.
Wired
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It was one reason practitioners so often kept cats as house pets.
Cold Days
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It was for that reason that no one in Bokthersa kept cats.
The White Road
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That meant that she wore thick glasses and probably kept cats.
Rainbow's End
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