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lab ratA student or employee who spends a great deal of time working in a laboratory.Rate it:

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rat raceAn activity or situation which is congested with participants and which is hectic or tedious, especially in the context of a busy, modern urban lifestyle.Rate it:

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lab ratA person or group used as the subject of an experiment or test, especially unwillingly or unwittingly.Rate it:

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winter ratAn old, unattractive automobile, purchased for little money, to be driven during brutal Great Lakes winters while the owner's "good" car remains garaged and protected from corrosive road salt for the season.Rate it:

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rat runA small road that people venture down when they want to sneak off the motorway and take a short cut.Rate it:

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rat run/runningTo drive through residential streets to avoid congestion on the main roads.Rate it:

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rat runningPresent participle of rat run.Rate it:

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à bon chat bon ratA Roland for an Oliver; Tit for tat; Diamond cut diamond.Rate it:

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à bon chat, bon ratUn attaquant et un attaqué se fortifient l’un l’autre au gré de leurs rencontres.Rate it:

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à bon chat, bon ratL’adversaire est prompt à la riposte.Rate it:

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à bon chat, bon ratÀ bonne attaque, bonne défense.Rate it:

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give a rat's arseTo care; to have or show an interest.Rate it:

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gueux comme un rat d'égliseAs poor as a church mouse.Rate it:

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il est gueux comme un rat d'égliseHe is as poor as a church mouse.Rate it:

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rat onTo tattle, squeal aboutRate it:

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rat outTo inform authorities; to tell on.Rate it:

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Rat RaceSevere, long-lasting and stressing competition in the society or in businessRate it:

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rat run/runningA small, usually minor road used by a significant amount of traffic as a short cut or to avoid congestion on more major routes.Rate it:

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rat throughTo rummage; to pick over.Rate it:

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rat's nestSomething that is excessively complicated, entangled, or disorderly.Rate it:

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rat's nestA software or hardware system whose design lacks organized structure, making it difficult to understand and maintain.Rate it:

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sewer ratUsed other than as an idiom: A rat that lives in sewers.Rate it:

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sewer ratbrown rat (Rattus norvegicus)Rate it:

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sewer ratA very contemptible personRate it:

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Smell a RatTo be skeptical about something wrong, someone who could sense the dangerRate it:

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smell a ratTo sense something suspicious.Rate it:

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Play Cat and MouseTo make someone fool by playing tricks, to annoy or tease someoneRate it:

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all piss and wind like a barber catAll talk and noise with no actionRate it:

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cat and dog lifeUnhappy married life.Rate it:

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cat and mouse gameTwo individuals and/or groups repeatedly keeping check on each other in a suspicious or self-protective way, often with the goal of one or both parties trying to gain a malicious advantage over the other.Rate it:

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cat and mouseA relationship in which two parties closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is attempting to gain an advantage over the other.Rate it:

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cat-and-mouseAlternative form of cat and mouse.Rate it:

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cat-and-mousesuspenseful, involving alternating roles of attack and defence.Rate it:

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dog and catA team comprised of one male and one female, who are either working as associates or where one is the second in command to the other.Rate it:

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a partibus rei publicae animus liber (Sall. Cat. 4. 2)an independent spirit.Rate it:

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dead cat bounceA temporary recovery in the price of a financial instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run.Rate it:

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look what the cat's dragged inUsed as an ironic acknowledgement of someone's arrival, especially to imply that they are unwelcome or disagreeable in some way.Rate it:

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nervous as a catVery nervous.Rate it:

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When the Cat's Away, the Mice will PlayWithout the presence of authority, people will do as they please even of breaking the rulesRate it:

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spill the beans / let the cat out of the bagTo let out a secretRate it:

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a cat can look at a kingAlternative form of a cat may look at a king.1982, A J Ayer, Rate it:

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a cat may look at a kingEven a purported inferior has certain abilities, even in the presence of a purported superiorRate it:

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grin like a cheshire catTo smile broadly, especially in a self-satisfied way.Rate it:

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a cat in gloves catches no miceOne cannot get what one wants by being cautious, one must use aggression to get it.Rate it:

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quiet as a catTo be quietRate it:

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there are many ways to skin a catAlternative form of there's more than one way to skin a cat.Rate it:

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cat's meowA self-satisfied person.Rate it:

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let the cat out of the bagA figure of speech relative to someone revealing an important event or secret to the world thereby spoiling the entire thrust of a surprise.Rate it:

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nervous as a catnervous as a catRate it:

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there's more than one way to skin a catA problem generally has more than one solution.Rate it:

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