English Saying: When the cat’s away, the mice will play
Every boss knows that when the cat’s away, the mice will play.
It’s one of the reasons they always have a second in command.
Has your boss ever gone away on a business trip, or been out of the office for a while?
If this has happened, then you’ve probably noticed too that the mood of the office changed.
Your co-workers became more relaxed, joked around a bit, maybe even took longer-than-usual lunch breaks and, as a result, less work was done.
Once the boss return, they can suspect that the workers have gotten up to something, but of course, there’s no proof.
That’s why in English we have the saying when the cat’s away, the mice will play.
It means that when the person who is usually in charge, is absent, the other people will be bad little boys and girls.