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lab rat	A student or employee who spends a great deal of time working in a laboratory.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
rat race	An 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: (5.00 / 1 vote)
lab rat	A person or group used as the subject of an experiment or test, especially unwillingly or unwittingly.	Rate it: (4.00 / 2 votes)
winter rat	An 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: (4.00 / 1 vote)
rat run	A small road that people venture down when they want to sneak off the motorway and take a short cut.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
rat run/running	To drive through residential streets to avoid congestion on the main roads.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
rat running	Present participle of rat run.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
à bon chat bon rat	A Roland for an Oliver; Tit for tat; Diamond cut diamond.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
à bon chat, bon rat	À bonne attaque, bonne défense.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
à bon chat, bon rat	L’adversaire est prompt à la riposte.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
à bon chat, bon rat	Un attaquant et un attaqué se fortifient l’un l’autre au gré de leurs rencontres.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give a rat's arse	To care; to have or show an interest.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gueux comme un rat d'église	As poor as a church mouse.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il est gueux comme un rat d'église	He is as poor as a church mouse.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rat on	To tattle, squeal about	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rat out	To inform authorities; to tell on.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rat Race	Severe, long-lasting and stressing competition in the society or in business	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rat run/running	A 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: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rat through	To rummage; to pick over.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rat's nest	Something that is excessively complicated, entangled, or disorderly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rat's nest	A software or hardware system whose design lacks organized structure, making it difficult to understand and maintain.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sewer rat	Used other than as an idiom: A rat that lives in sewers.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sewer rat	A very contemptible person	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sewer rat	brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Smell a Rat	To be skeptical about something wrong, someone who could sense the danger	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
smell a rat	To sense something suspicious.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il y a quelque anguille sous roche	There is a snake in the grass; I can smell a rat.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
como si te la pica un pollo	I don't give a rat's ass	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
IDGARA	Initialism of I don't give a rat's ass.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
métro, boulot, dodo	metonymy for the everyday routine of a Parisian or more generally urban worker. Roughly, same old same old or also rat race.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
panier de crabes	A rat race; any organization where people metaphorically claw at one another to come out on top.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)