cat in the meal-tub

obsolete A surprise attack or ambush; a hidden or unseen danger. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. Many people want to legalize marijuana but are in denial of the cats in the meal-tub that may come with doing so. The young political candidate waited like a cat in a meal-tub for his rival's sordid history to come to public attention.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kamryn	KAM-rin	English (Modern)
Metushelach	-	Biblical Hebrew
Seyed	-	Persian
Gladys	GLAD-is (English)	Welsh, English
Ruslan	roo-SLAHN (Russian)	Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Cheche
Adolf	AH-dawlf (German), AH:-dawlf (Dutch)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Ancient Germanic