What's Belled the Cat Mean?

"Belling the Cat" is a fable also known under the titles "The Bell and the Cat" and "The Mice in Council". Although often attributed to Aesop, it was not recorded before the Middle Ages and has been confused with the quite different fable of Classical origin titled The Cat and the Mice.

What is the moral of the story of belling the cat?

It provides a moral lesson about the fundamental difference between ideas and their feasibility, and how this affects the value of a given plan. The story gives rise to the idiom to bell the cat, which means to attempt, or agree to perform, an impossibly difficult task.

Who will bail the cat meaning?

To bell the cat means to attempt or agree to attempt an impossibly difficult task that if achieved, will benefit the entire community. The idiom bell the cat comes from a fable attributed to Aesop called the Mice in Council.