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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp "if you throw it out the top floor window, even a

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp "if you throw it out the top floor window, even a dead cat would bounce". I shouldn't use the phrase though, as I'm actually very fond of cats. I think it's an example of society's bias against cats. If it were called "dead dog bounce" it would likely be taboo

kazinator 4y ago
Oh well; you can't teach an old cat new tricks. It would make a cat's breakfast out of the old metaphors. Let sleeping cats lie. It's a cat's life. Say, this bloated browser runs like an absolute cat. Those catgone web devs, you know? Oh, about last night's date: she looked nothing like her profile picture. Total cat! "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cats."
- sircastor 4y ago
  > "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cats." The trouble here is that the sentence no longer fulfills its cat-given goal of representing every English alphabet letter.
implements 4y ago
Non finance related, but in politics there’s also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy “There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table […] they will be talking about the dead cat – the thing you want them to talk about – and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.”
Brian_K_White 4y ago
To create an image, you have to use something. You can't just say 'dead thing bounce'. Maybe it's unfair to cats since I would agree that not all choices for 'thing' are equally acceptable. No 'dead baby bounce'. But still it must be something actual and not purely abstract, else it's not an image and does not do the job an image does.
nytesky 4y ago
Cats always land on their feet, they say. I think this idiom is the correlation to the bounce — you think the car has landed like it ALWAYS does, but in fact it’s a dead cat and was a bounce not a sticked landing.
dtyy568 4y ago
Well cat owners openly acknowledge that some cats are quite evil

kazinator 4y ago

Oh well; you can't teach an old cat new tricks. It would make a cat's breakfast out of the old metaphors. Let sleeping cats lie. It's a cat's life. Say, this bloated browser runs like an absolute cat. Those catgone web devs, you know? Oh, about last night's date: she looked nothing like her profile picture. Total cat! "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cats."

sircastor 4y ago
> "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cats." The trouble here is that the sentence no longer fulfills its cat-given goal of representing every English alphabet letter.

implements 4y ago

Non finance related, but in politics there’s also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy “There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table […] they will be talking about the dead cat – the thing you want them to talk about – and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.”

Brian_K_White 4y ago

To create an image, you have to use something. You can't just say 'dead thing bounce'. Maybe it's unfair to cats since I would agree that not all choices for 'thing' are equally acceptable. No 'dead baby bounce'. But still it must be something actual and not purely abstract, else it's not an image and does not do the job an image does.

nytesky 4y ago

Cats always land on their feet, they say. I think this idiom is the correlation to the bounce — you think the car has landed like it ALWAYS does, but in fact it’s a dead cat and was a bounce not a sticked landing.

dtyy568 4y ago

Well cat owners openly acknowledge that some cats are quite evil