Person 1: Why wont you watch Coraline with me.
Person 2: Fine, just tell me one good lesson I could get from it!
Person 1: When all else fails... THROW THE CAT!!! >:D
It derives from the British Royal Navy when the punishment of whipping with a cat of nine tails was administered on the poop or upper deck of a ship as on the main decks below there wasn't room to swing a cat
i.e. a confined spacemay be defined as not having enough room to swing a cat