catbird
kat burd
- n any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females
- n North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing
- Harvard picks a new dean The post of dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard University is the academic equivalent of James Thurber's catbird seat.
- During his long career with Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, Paul Otellini has had a catbird-seat view of the remarkable social and business changes wrought by .
- And right now, the Dems are in the catbird's seat -- the House can pass a stimulus bill that the GOP doesn't like, and if the GOP blocks it in the Senate (or Bush vetoes it and .