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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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blood in the waterIn a competitive situation, the exhibition of apparent weakness or vulnerability by one party, especially when this leads to a feeling of vulnerability or greater pressure to perform on the part of the weak party, and/or enhanced expectation of victory by the other(s).Rate it:

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blood is thicker than waterFamily relations and loyalties are stronger than relationships with people who are not family members.1866, Anthony Trollope, The Belton Estate, ch. 30,Blood is thicker than water, is it not? If cousins are not friends, who can be?circa 1915, Lucy Fitch Perkins, The Scotch Twins, ch. 5,The old clans are scattered now, but blood is thicker than water still, and you're welcome to the fireside of your kinsman!Rate it:

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get the dirty water off one's chestTo get sexual satisfaction, especially after a period of abstinence.Rate it:

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Make Your Mouth WaterTo be intimidated by something in such a way that you feel inclined towards it and desperately desire of eating or drinking by feeling pleasureRate it:

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under waterIn difficulty, especially financial.Rate it:

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water canAny of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; so called from the shape of the seed vessel.Rate it:

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water is exceeding up the headwhen every thing goes wrong and nothing is controlableRate it:

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water is wetA statement of the obvious.Rate it:

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water over the damAn event or set of events which has already happened and cannot be changed.Rate it:

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water under the bridgeSomething in the past that cannot be controlled or undone, but must be accepted, forgiven, or forgotten.Rate it:

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Keep Your Head above WaterTo have just enough to avoid any financial collapse, hardly keeping up with one’s responsibilityRate it:

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fish out of waterA person in unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable, surroundings.Rate it:

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like a fish out of watercompletely out of the comfort zone.Rate it:

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Throw Cold Water on SomethingDoing or saying something that may not be very encouraging; dampening the eagerness of someoneRate it:

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water to one's millWhatever energizes or stimulates one.Rate it:

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blown out of the waterthoroughly and decisively defeated, proven wrong, or discredited.Rate it:

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body of waterAny significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.Rate it:

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deep waterA difficult or embarrassing situation.Rate it:

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spending money as if it were waterlack of respect for the dollar, frittering away one's paycheck.Rate it:

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Still Water Runs DeepSomeone who apparently looks silent might be very knowledgeable or intelligent person, silence has powerRate it:

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you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drinkYou can show someone how to do something, but you can't make them do it.Rate it:

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like water off a duck's backWithout immediate or lasting effects.Rate it:

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come hell or high waterRegardless of the hardships.Rate it:

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above waterOut of difficulty, especially financial.Rate it:

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