I don’t know if this has been discussed before, but where does the phrase “copycat” come from? Some weird teacher I have says it came from something about cats being able to utter sounds that sound like human speech, but I don’t know so if anyone knows the real answer tell me.
Forget your teacher. This site is as good as any for an answer.
Just a little note.
The same meaning for copycat
is in Swedish copy-monkey (translated to English here).
I think our word makes more sence,
since a monkey copy more than a cat.