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When the cat is away, the mice will come out and play

An expression referring to a married couple having sex while their kid is at a friend's house, or at school, or a sleepover, etc.
Fish: Dude what happened?

Mike: I walked in on my parents having sex and my mom looked at me and said, "When the cat is away, the mice will come out and play."

When the cats are away, the mice will come out and play

When your significant other or parents are away for a few days and you plan with your old trustful friends to meet up.
It usually happens in a tucked away shack in the woods where wild and crazy sexual experiences occur. You smoke weed, sing songs, lots of laughs, massages, spa baths, explore various kinds of sexual pleasure, lots of dirty taboo sex which is so good you're not even allowed to think about it. It can occur between two or more groups of friends, depends on what tickles your fancy.
Sia: 'Having sex with someone you really shouldn't be having sex with can make you reach for the skies faster than Kim Jong-Un's super large heavy nuclear warhead'.
Jocelyn: 'True, when the cats are away, the mice will come out and play that's for sure'.

breatharian 

One whos diet consists of air, light, and prana, with a possible sip of water now and then.
The breatharian has air, light, and prana for food.
breatharian by leena gabor November 8, 2005
Word of the Day on June 3, 2026

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026