as wet like a drowned rat

  • 1like a drowned rat — extremely wet and bedraggled she arrived at the church looking like a drowned rat …

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  • 2look like a drowned rat — very informal phrase to look very wet in a way that is not attractive Thesaurus: wet to the touch or looking wetsynonym Main entry: rat …

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  • 3look like a drowned rat — to be very wet, especially because you have been in heavy rain. I had to cycle home in the rain and came in looking like a drowned rat …

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  • 4look like a drowned rat — very informal to look very wet in a way that is not attractive …

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  • 5rat — rat1 [ræt] n [: Old English; Origin: rAt] 1.) an animal that looks like a large mouse with a long tail 2.) spoken someone who has been disloyal to you or deceived you ▪ But you promised to help us, you rat! 3.) look like a drowned rat to look… …

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  • 6rat — rat1 [ ræt ] noun count ** 1. ) an animal like a large mouse with a long tail: The house was infested with rats. diseases spread by rats rat poison 2. ) INFORMAL someone who is not loyal or who tricks you like rats deserting a sinking ship in a… …

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  • 7rat — 1 noun (C) 1 an animal that looks like a large mouse with a long tail: rat poison 2 spoken someone who has been disloyal to you or deceived you: But you promised to help us, you rat! 3 look like a drowned rat to look very wet and uncomfortable 4… …

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  • 8drown — v. 1 tr. & intr. kill or be killed by submersion in liquid. 2 tr. submerge; flood; drench (drowned the fields in six feet of water). 3 tr. (often foll. by in) deaden (grief etc.) with drink (drowned his sorrows in drink). 4 tr. (often foll. by… …

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  • 9Nepenthes rajah — Large lower pitcher of Nepenthes rajah. Mount Kinabalu, Borneo. Conservation status …

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  • 10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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