like a cat in a strange garret

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  Having a feeling of uncertainty and misapprehension due to being in an unfamiliar situation.
 * 2) * 1862 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Vermont Board of Education
 * Mothers cannot conveniently leave home to get about, and fathers, to use their own expression, "feel like a cat in a strange garret," when screwed up in one of the seats to the school house.
 * Mothers cannot conveniently leave home to get about, and fathers, to use their own expression, "feel like a cat in a strange garret," when screwed up in one of the seats to the school house.