| 单词 | drunk, as a rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) drunk, (also mad, poor, †rank, weak, etc.) as a rat P3. In similative phrases indicating extremity or intensity, as (as) drunk, (also mad, poor, †rank, weak, etc.) as a rat.(as) wet as a drowned rat: see drowned adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > very poor or destitute (as) poor as JobOE nakedOE voidc1374 naisa1400 vacant1430 (as) drunk, (also mad, poor, rank, weak, etc.) as a rat?1548 Hungarian1608 pauper1690 destitute1735 farthingless1834 pebble-beached1890 piss-poor1945 ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Ciiij The Monkes were fatte, And ranke as a ratte. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique f. 99v We would extenuate..great faultes,..as if one had..kepte the tauerne till he had been as dronke as a ratte. 1661 Merry Drollerie i. 17 Drunk as a Rat, you'd hardly wot That drinking so he could trudge it. 1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xxxvii.193 They are..out of Business about three or four Months in the Year, and generally as poor as Rats. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iv. 68 See he's as poor as a rat. 1840 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 186 Weak as a rat, and no appetite. 1900 S. J. Weyman Sophia v All as poor as rats, and no one better than the other. 1995 Independent 4 Mar. 12/4 What makes me mad as a rat is to be told to cut out a coupon and then take it to my newsagent so that I can get Sunday's paper at half-price. 2000 Sun (Nexis) 8 May I want to be able to..get drunk as a rat, knowing I don't have to get up the next morning at 6am. < as lemmas |
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