rat on (someone)
51(a) pack rat — American someone who collects things that they do not need. For me there could be nothing worse than living with a pack rat …
52(a) rat fink — American, informal an extremely unpleasant person, or someone who has given secret information about you to the police. If I find the rat fink who informed on me, he won t live long enough to do it again …
53Smell a rat — If you smell a rat, you know instinctively that something is wrong or that someone is lying to you …
54hood rat — n. someone who hangs around the [black] neighborhood. □ Sam’s just a wimpy hood rat. He never sees any action …
55smell a rat — be suspicious of someone, feel someone is against a common cause …
56take someone back — take (someone) back to start a relationship again. Why on earth would you take him back when he s been such a rat? Mary took back her husband after he stopped drinking …
57mall rat — noun Someone who frequently loiters in a shopping mall …
58pack rat — noun (C) AmE someone who collects and stores things that they do not really need …
59give someone away — Syn: betray, inform on; informal split on, rat on; Brit.; informal grass on, shop; N.Amer.; informal finger; Austral. / NZ; informal dob in …
60gym rat — noun someone who spends all leisure time playing sports or working out in a gymnasium or health spa • Hypernyms: ↑addict, ↑nut, ↑freak, ↑junkie, ↑junky …
