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The phrase "there's more than one way to skin a cat" is an idiom that means there are multiple ways to achieve a goal. For example, you might say "There's more than one way to skin a cat" when suggesting that you can rent a computer instead of buying one.

Explanation

• The phrase may have originated as a British expression "more ways of killing a cat".
  
  
• Writers have been creative with variations on the phrase, such as "There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with cream".
  
  
• The phrase's origins are unrelated to fitness, though there is a calisthenics move called "skin the cat". In this exercise, athletes hang from a horizontal bar by their hands and pass their legs between their arms.