Collocations for "rat"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "rat" in context.
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rat
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [dead, scurrying, street, large] rat
- experiments on lab rats
- rats in the [sewers, kitchen, streets]
- gets squeamish when she sees rats
- heard a rat in the [attic, wall]
- lay a trap for rats
- [kill, skin, trap, catch] a rat
- the rat's [paws, whiskers, teeth]
- slang: you rat!
- slang: I think I smell a rat!
- slang: there's a rat among the [ranks, workers, party members]
- slang: there's a rat in the [office, company, party]
- slang: Rats! I've lost my [keys, wallet]
- slang: couldn't give a rat's ass [for him, about them, what they think]
- idiom: a sleeping cat will not catch a rat
- ratted on [them, his friend, his colleague]
- rat [them] out
- rat your hair
- put out rat traps
- killed with rat poison
- slang: part of the rat pack
- slang: you're such a rat brain!
- slang: wants to escape the rat race
'rat' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):