like the cat that ate/got/swallowed the canary

:  a carnivorous mammal (Felis catus) long domesticated as a pet and for catching rats and mice

:  any of a family (Felidae) of carnivorous usually solitary and nocturnal mammals (such as the domestic cat, lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, cougar, wildcat, lynx, and cheetah)

:  a malicious woman

:  to bring (an anchor) up to the cathead

: catalog

: catalyst

: past tense ofeat

: past tense and past participle ofget

:  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