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Looking for a needle in a bottle of hay
Looking for a very small article amidst a mass of other things. Bottle is a diminutive of the French botte , a bundle; as botte de foin , a bundle of hay.

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Hang me in a bottle like a cat. (Much Ado about Nothing, i. 1.) In olden times a cat was for sport enclosed in a bag or leather bottle, and hung to the branch of a tree, as a mark for bowmen to shoot at. Steevens tells us of another sport: "A cat was placed in a soot bag, and hung on a line; the players had to beat out the bottom of the bag without getting besmudged, and he who succeeded in so doing was allowed to hunt the cat afterwards.