English-German translations for cat and mouse

• Katz-und-Maus-Spiel das
  Das wäre sowohl für die Vereinigten Staaten als auch für den Irak Garantie dafür, dass kein Katz-und-Maus-Spiel stattfindet. This would provide a guarantee both for the United States and for Iraq, thus avoiding any games of cat and mouse.
  Zwölf Jahre lang hat Saddam Hussein versucht, die Welt durch ein Katz-und-Maus-Spiel mit den Waffeninspektoren an der Nase herumzuführen. For twelve years, Saddam Hussein has attempted to mock the surrounding world by playing a cat and mouse game with the UN weapons inspectors.
  Verantwortung, Aufrichtigkeit und Öffentlichkeit sind gefragt, kein Versteckspiel oder Katz-und-Maus-Spiel der Mitgliedstaaten und der Finanzminister! Responsibility, honesty and transparency are required - and no games of hide and seek or cat and mouse by the Member States and the finance ministers.

Definition of cat and mouse

• A relationship in which two parties closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is attempting to gain an advantage over the other
• A form of attack in which the attacker toys with the victim by inflicting minor damage or letting the victim have futile hopes of escape before finally finishing the victim off
• A children's game in which one player attempts to break through a ring of players to catch another player in the centre

Examples

• The Allied and the enemy submarine played a game of cat and mouse, checking up on each others whereabouts and strategies.
• The hackers played a cat and mouse game with the system administrators: the hackers kept trying new tricks, and the system administrators kept mounting electronic defenses.

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