| 单词 | like, as wet as, a drowned rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike, as wet as, a drowned rat b. like, as wet as, a drowned rat: in a thoroughly soaked and dripping condition. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > very wet [phrase] like, as wet as, a drowned ratc1500 wet as muck1691 c1500 Blowbols Test. 31 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 93 He lokyd furyous as a wyld catt, And pale of hew like a drowned ratte. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 180v An hedde he had..Three heares on a side, like a drouned ratte. 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) viii. 84 I got on shoare as wet as a drowned Rat. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 70 The Storm..drencht us all like so many drowned Rats. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 17 Take Pity on poor Miss; don't throw Water on a drownded Rat. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 240 I was dragged out of a river like a drowned rat. 1813 I. Pocock Miller & his Men i. iii. 15 Looking as melancholy as a mourning coach in a snow storm, at the foot of a tree as wet as a drowned rat—so stir up the fire, bless you. 1880 M. Allan-Olney New Virginians II. 229 Looking like the drowndest of drowned rats. 1993 Newsweek 29 Mar. 65/1 When we first see the heroine, now called Maggie,..she's a vicious, drug-addicted punkette, as glamorous as a drowned rat. < as lemmas |
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