Well I'm sure that cat's pyjamas, if such things existed, would be the finest pyjamas around - seeing as how cats are connaisseurs of sleep.

Hmm. Perhaps we should adopt the phrase "the ferret's pyjamas", then.

(Ferrets sleep more than any other animal, fact-fans.)

I never mentioned "the Badger's Snatch" and I'll sue anyone who says I did.

"The dog's bollocks."

I know that one (it's not a phrase you hear on this side of the Atlantic much) because while a starving grad student in the 80s teaching ESL, one of my fellow starving grad students and teachers was a Scot with a magnificent burr. She and I were great friends and as it happened, taught the same students, one after another (we were both floored one day when we were both in the classroom together and our students were surprised to find that we had different accents -- Shona the Scot and I, the Southerner -- apparently, the students couldn't discern the difference).

Oh. The phrase. Sorry. Every once in a while, she would come out with something, usually a phrase or idiom, none of us had ever heard. They were known as "Excuse me, Shona?" moments. The first time she uttered that phrase was one of those moments.

Ferrets sleep more than any other animal, fact-fans.

I thought that was the sloth?

"Ferrets spend 14 to 18 hours a day sleeping"

"sloths are one of the most somnolent animals ever known, sleeping from 15 to 18 hours each day"

It's a close-run thing.

Btw, you might find this interesting.

That Simon Pegg's a bright lad.

I think my hamster sleeps about 15 hours a day.

I didn't know you had a hamster.

I've just got a new hamster. He still thinks my fingers are food. The last one died a couple of weeks ago. :-(

I used to keep rats. They're great.