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there are many ways to skin a cat

there are many ways to skin a cat is the alternative form of there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Meaning of there's more than one way to skin a cat

Proverb

there's more than one way to skin a cat

  1. A problem generally has more than one solution; there is more than one way to achieve a goal.
    • At any rate, thought I, there's more than one way to skin a cat, as a butcher would say.1835 November 11, the New York Transcript, quotee, “Eccentricities of a Mad Man”, in Benj[amin] Kingsbury, Jr., editor, Zion’s Herald, volume VI, number 45, Boston, Mass.: Boston Wesleyan...

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There are many ways to skin a cat is the alternative form of there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Words near there are many ways to skin a cat in the dictionary

  1. there ain't no such thing as a free lunch
  2. there and back
  3. there and then
  4. there are
  5. there are bad apples in every orchard
  6. there are many ways to skin a cat
  7. there are more horses' asses than horses
  8. there are no atheists in foxholes
  9. there are no stupid questions
  10. there are none so blind as those who will not see
  11. there are none so deaf as those who will not hear

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