After its initial panic the Library was now as alert and jittery as a long-tailed cat in a rocking-chair factory.

Even the new dead are jumpier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Because, lady, right now I feel as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs.

The scathing look she sent his way made him feel like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Every time he's on duty, he's as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Every man was born with an ego, and they're like the proverbial long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

McCoy grimaced and whispered, "He's as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, Jim."

The pelvic region, including the sacral vertebrae, were bear-like, as was the short tail composed of 13 vertebrae-about half the number of long-tailed cats.

My God, you're as twitchy as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers.

A Democratic strategist noted on CNN that the president looked as cowed as "a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."