cat on a hot tin roof

A Southernism that meant someone who was on edge or nervous. The phrase survives as the title of Tennessee Williams's 1955 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Rex	REKS	English
Marleen	MAHR-leen (English)	Dutch, English
Rubem	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)
AlastrÍOna	al-as-TREE-na	Irish
Tullio	-	Italian
Nikol	-	Czech, Bulgarian