“I killed a flea this morning. I may have been a bit overzealous, because I accidentally killed the cat too.”
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.”
“I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon.”
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.”
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
“In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.”