| 单词 | like a rat up a drainpipe |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike a rat up a drainpipe (also drain, rope, pump) P8. like a rat up a drainpipe (also drain, rope, pump) and variants: very quickly; immediately, ‘like a shot’. Also (frequently with reference to sexual activity): enthusiastically, very energetically. ΚΠ 1911 A. Sangree Jinx 46 I want seventeen games—we'll go through 'em like a rat up a pump. 1959 E. Lambert Glory thrown In 104 First time we spoke she turned it on—I was like a rat up a rope! 1968 B. Took & M. Feldman in B. Took & M. Coward Best of ‘Round The Horne’ (2000) 233/1 You go the grope with me and you'll be in the casualty ward like a rat up a drainpipe. 1987 Times (Nexis) 30 July He goes through those papers like a rat up a drain. 1999 J. Townsend Angels & Saints ii. 25 There are two types [of Catholic girl]... Either go like a rat up a drainpipe or ye cannae get a thing from them. 2006 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 6 May (Focus section) 31 We took the last rock out and he came flying out of there like a rat up a drain pipe... Nothing was going to keep him in there. < as lemmas |
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