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From when I was only 7yrs old, which was a LOOOONG time ago when me and my family were on summer vacation in Wildwood NJ. my dad and I were on the way to the store. As we were walking I said to him something my Mom had said to me. I said, "Did you hear what she said to me." He answered by saying "She is the cat's mother." I had no idea what he meant. So today I looked it up and this is what it means.


she's the cat's mother
old-fashioned A reprimand given to someone for using a pronoun ("she") instead of a proper name.
A: "Oh, and she was there too." B: "She's the cat's mother. To whom are you referring, child?"
 

Sassycakes said:
From when I was only 7yrs old, which was a LOOOONG time ago when me and my family were on summer vacation in Wildwood NJ. my dad and I were on the way to the store. As we were walking I said to him something my Mom had said to me. I said, "Did you hear what she said to me." He answered by saying "She is the cat's mother." I had no idea what he meant. So today I looked it up and this is what it means.


she's the cat's mother
old-fashioned A reprimand given to someone for using a pronoun ("she") instead of a proper name.
A: "Oh, and she was there too." B: "She's the cat's mother. To whom are you referring, child?"
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Perhaps it's because I'm achy and tired, but I'm not getting this. Perhaps if you post it to one of the many past threads about phrases, you could get more thoughtful feedback. There was one running not long ago, but I can't think of the title.
 
I know what Sassy's talking about. I think, "she's the cat's mother" is used more often in England, but I had seen it used in books like Catherine Cookson's that have the characters speaking in the local vernacular.

Example from real life: My husband was down at the local pub in England, talking to another man and out of the blue said something like, "She's home watching TV." No one had asked him about me, he was just assuming they knew he was talking about me and hadn't used my name first. So he was told, "She's the cat's mother," for the first time.

The pronouns should always follow a proper name. It's disrespectful to refer to someone, out of the blue, just by the pronoun. I think it's most often done about a spouse. The neighbor might say, "He's working late again," and expect us to know who she's talking about but it's not really correct.
 
Della said:
I know what Sassy's talking about. I think, "she's the cat's mother" is used more often in England, but I had seen it used in books like Catherine Cookson's that have the characters speaking in the local vernacular.

Example from real life: My husband was down at the local pub in England, talking to another man and out of the blue said something like, "She's home watching TV." No one had asked him about me, he was just assuming they knew he was talking about me and hadn't used my name first. So he was told, "She's the cat's mother," for the first time.

The pronouns should always follow a proper name. It's disrespectful to refer to someone, out of the blue, just by the pronoun. I think it's most often done about a spouse. The neighbor might say, "He's working late again," and expect us to know who she's talking about but it's not really correct.
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yu're kind of correct. I feel that it was started by some woke person a very long time ago when someone referred to a female in their presence as 'She' and they took offence.

IE... 3 people in the room..One person talking about the 3rd.. and says 'she made the dinner'' rather than Mary made the dinner.. and Mary took offence and remarked.. ''Whose SHE ? the cats' mother?'' ...or ''She is the cat's mother ''

regardless, it's just ridiculous that women take offence at being called She...
 
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