Comb the Cat (To).
To run your fingers through the lashes of a cat-oʹ-nine-tails to disentangle them.
To run your fingers through the lashes of a cat-oʹ-nine-tails to disentangle them.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.