| 单词 | rat pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrat pit rat pit n. (a) a pit or enclosure in which rats are confined and then set upon by dogs for sport (now historical); (b) figurative a house or other structure suggestive of a rat pit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > animal baiting > [noun] > rat-pit rat pit1849 1849 Bentley's Misc. 26 79 I am no frequenter of wax-works or Walhallas, eschewing them as I would a rat-pit. 1919 Times 22 Nov. 16/4 The national emergency in housing and the overcrowding of people in rat-pits, as they had been called. 2002 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 20 Sept. 14 A rat pit existed at the Ship until after the First World War. It comprised of an open-topped cage filled with rats into which a dog was put for one minute. 2007 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 July 11 One resident described the area as ‘squalor’ and another said the estate was a ‘rat pit’. < as lemmas |
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