Would a cat drink milk

exp.

Heard in Monaghan

A rhetorical question used to affirm that something is glaringly obvious.

In use

Would he take a brown envelope? Would a cat drink milk!

Posh English

Would he accept a brown envelope? Would a feline imbibe bovine lactation!

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