like the cat that ate/got/swallowed the canary

: past tense of eat

: a Greek goddess personifying foolhardy and ruinous impulse

: one acted upon (in a specified way)

: chemical compound or complex anion derived from a (specified) compound or element

: office : function : rank : group of persons holding a (specified) office or rank or having a (specified) function

: state : dominion : jurisdiction

: marked by having

: act on (in a specified way) : cause to be modified or affected by : cause to become : furnish with

: past tense and past participle of get

: any of numerous small widely distributed oscine birds (family Hirundinidae, the swallow family) that have a short bill, long pointed wings, and often a deeply forked tail and that feed on insects caught on the wing

: any of several birds that superficially resemble swallows

: to take through the mouth and esophagus into the stomach

: to envelop or take in as if by swallowing : absorb

: to accept without question, protest, or resentment

: the passage connecting the mouth to the stomach

: a capacity for swallowing

: an act of swallowing

: a Canary Islands usually sweet wine similar to Madeira

: a lively 16th century court dance

: a small finch (Serinus canarius synonym S. canaria) of the Canary Islands that is usually greenish to yellow and is kept as a cage bird and singer