Do you know what the saying - Cat on a hot tin roof means?

[Bretrick]

It supposedly denotes a person who is in a state of extreme nervous worry. Anxious and worried.
Well I have never seen a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof so I will change the meaning to - Non Existent.

 

[Warrigal]

I would interpret it as "extremely agitated" or "very jumpy".

It is usually expressed as a simile - i.e. like a cat on a hot tin roof.

 

[Tommy]

An old Navy buddy would use the phrase "Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs".

 

[Bellbird]

I remember seeing the film Cat on a hot tin roof, starring Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman. It was great.

 

[Gaer]

"Nervous as a whore in church."

 

[Alligatorob]

I have never seen a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Like @Bellbird I've seen Tennessee William's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", good classic film.

Like a cat on a hot tin roof, idiom (UK old-fashioned like a cat on hot bricks) used to describe someone who is in a state of extreme nervous worry. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/like-a-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof

 

[grahamg]

Funnily enough cats like a tin roof warmed by the sun before it gets too hot dont they!

 

[Gary O']

Do you know what the saying - Cat on a hot tin roof means?​

No

But I know what it looks like

 

[grahamg]

Here is a happy cat: