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"The catbird seat" is an idiomatic phrase used to describe an enviable position, often in terms of having the upper hand or greater advantage in any type of dealing among parties. It derives from the secluded perch on which the gray catbird makes mocking calls.
The Oxford English Dictionary attributes the first recorded usage of the phrase catbird seat to this story. [1] Mrs. Barrows likes to use the phrase. Another character, Joey Hart, explains that Mrs. Barrows must have picked up the expression from the baseball broadcaster Red Barber and that to Barber, "sitting in the catbird seat" meant "'sitting pretty,' like a batter with three balls and no ...
The Catbird Seat has been through 6 kitchen teams in 13 years. Here's how it stays consistently good
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The Catbird Seat, one of Nashville's most prized — and pricey — prix fixe tickets is ready to showcase its newest head chef. Or in this case, chefs. Nashville's The Catbird Seat restaurant ...
Google Books lists it as having been originally published in Issue 28 of Tales for Travellers under the title "A Couple of Hamburgers; and The Catbird Seat". "Tales For Travellers Collection 3" is listed as having something by James Thurbur, but I can't tell what.
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As second print-run of 14,009 copies were released after the initial printing in the same year as the third printing for a total of 26,004 copies in a single year. The Joy of Cooking was likely the only other American cookbook that was outselling The Household Searchlight Recipe Book. Twelfth Printing (revised and enlarged), 1939 - 100,000 copies