Perfume companies create oily rubbing scents to mark clothing. A contest between two women is called a cat-fight. James Bond's sidekick was Pussy Galore. An executive woman either is a mouser or a tiger. Young girls are kittens in search of cougars.
Old lionesses decorate their dens.
If you're freespirited in a career that requires more logic than nurturance, you're a wildcat. An ambitious woman grows into a bobcat, but a tricky woman becomes a jaguar. Child-rearing ends with the empty litter box syndrome. Wives outlive their husbands by nine lives. Divorced women are expected to land on their paws after a leap of faith onto the ledge of leadership.