Meaning
To take a quick/incomplete shower
Example
Você já tomou banho?! Não se passou nem 4 minutos! Tomou banho de gato?!
You already showered?! Not even 4 minutes passed! Did you take a bird bath?!
Origin
The expression tomar banho de gato (literally "to take a cat's bath") draws on the way cats clean themselves: they do not plunge into water but simply lick their fur, dabbing at it bit by bit.
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