posted 07-08-2005 03:46 PM               

In ye old times to buy your meat at it's most fresh aka chicken you normally bought it still alive already in a bag from the market. But sneeky sellers would sometimes try to cheat the housewives by putting a stray cat inside instead so they could save money. When the housewife got home she would open the bag to kill the animal aka a chicken and instead the cat would jump out and so the truth presented itself when the cat appeared and they buyer would see that they have been cheated and that the truth is presented. It is with this that the saying comes from "letting the cat out of the bag"

Gareth