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Jimmy Hung
2021-07-09 02:07
Cattywampus American informal
It's also phrase as "catawampus".
Used to describe something that is not quite straight, ordered or in the right position
This picture is cattywampus compared to others.
The box looks cattywampus, doesn't it?
Used to describe someone or something that is diagonal to someone or something else
The park is cattywampus to my house.
Cattywampus is a variant of catawampus, an American slang from the 19th century. In addition to “askew”, catawampus may refer to “an imaginary fierce wild animal,” or may mean “savage, destructive.”
Do you see anything wrong?
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.
