Need some help

[ruzickowsky]

Hi! I'm not a teacher, just a very bad learner. :roll:

I'm writing here for the first time so, please, be nice with me...


I am searching for an expression that has this meaning:

"How much smaller the box, bigger is the cat"

But I think isn't right. How can I write this? "Smaller the box, bigger the cat"? I'm looking for an expression, perhaps an artistic license.


Thank you for the attention.

 

[J&K Tutoring]

Can you express your meaning in a more direct way? Unless you are actually wanting to put a cat in a box, you have used one metaphor to look for another, and I (for one) am not familiar with the one you gave.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm not familiar with that idiom either. What do you think it means?

 

[ruzickowsky]

Yes! Actually is exactly what I am looking for. A phrase to illustrate this image:

"If it fits, I sits."

But my doubt is about the way that I wrote... "Smaller the box, bigger the cat" to say that cats always try to get in small boxes...


Is that right?

 

[Eckaslike]

The idiom which comes to mind is, "It's like trying to fit a quart into a pint pot!". It doesn't matter whether the subject matter is to do with liquids or not.