Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for September 24, 2022

That took me several seconds to parse. He’s trying to get out of a talk by claiming “cat’s got my tongue.”

The born loser can do better than that.

It was worth a shot

I wouldn’t be so sure. You never know what a cat might do.

“We’re going to talk” means he’s going to listen.

Talk is cheap, buy some.

“But she left your brain in the litter box.”

Cat got your tongue? is a question asked when someone doesn’t answer a previously posed question or otherwise remains silent. The origins of this phrase are quite murky. The earliest use of the phrase ‘cat got you tongue’ is found in an American magazine in 1881, where it is described as a taunt used by children.

One origin theory is that cat got your tongue stems from the medieval fear of witches and their familiars, black cats. Another theory is that the “cat” referenced in cat got your tongue is the cat-o’-nine-tails, a vicious whip used on early sailors which would render the victim speechless. A third theory is the assertion that ancient kings cut off the tongues of liars and fed the tongues to their cats.

All of these stories are apocryphal, there is no evidence that the phrase cat got your tongue is anything more than odd, childish imagery.

She looks very pleased with herself!!!

Never argue with your wife, dicker

Feigning deafness may be a better ploy for him.