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Definition of drat in English: dratexclamation dratdræt often drat someone/somethingA mild expression of annoyance or irritation. 表示轻度生气或恼怒讨厌 ‘Oh, drat Feargal and his suspicions!’ '哦，讨厌的费格尔和他那疑神疑鬼的样子！'。 Example sentencesExamples - No, wait, that was her name… drat, I didn't write down the name.
- My life, drat the luck, is nothing but incremental improvements - and all these little modifications are so twitchy and unstable I have to buy service contracts for the day when they blow up.
- I scan 24 and get out the credit card - but the site is unable to accept orders at the moment, drat the luck.
- Mind you, I'll be moving next month, so I'll be out of the neighbourhood - drat.
- I was thinking I'd be farther along in my nefarious plans before I got a super hero… drat it.
- Drat and double drat - no AA batteries in the house.
- And drat the luck, the search got just odd enough to tip the anecdote to column status, but not great column status.
- She'd been obsessed with him, ever since, ever since… Oh I don't know, drat!
- Oh drat… did I make a mistake with the growing spell?
- We were going to head up the riverfront boulevard, but drat the luck: the driver noted that the tunnel beneath the bridge was three inches too short, and any attempt to go through the passageway would decapitate the people on the upper desk.
- ‘Oh, drat,’ I muttered, doing my Victor Meldrew impression.
- On preview: most of these have been mentioned already - drat having to work in the middle of posting!
Synonyms damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett
Derivativesadjectiveˈdratɪdˈdrædəd informal attributive Used for emphasis, especially to express annoyance or irritation. it's time that dratted boy did something for a living Example sentencesExamples - You'll be justified in shooting the leaping, slavering, fanged attack dog, even if it would have been best if you'd never poked the dratted thing in the first place.
- Second, if something is too dangerous for the poor I still don't see why it's not too dangerous for the rich - either ban the dratted things or treat them like other schools.
- There's no telling with the dratted things but they cling to life with a tenacity not unlike chewing gum trodden into carpet pile and it's more likely that it'll spring into life somewhere around the end of April, beginning of May.
OriginEarly 19th century: shortening of od rat, euphemism for God rot. Rhymesat, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, expat, fat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat Definition of drat in US English: dratexclamationdratdræt often drat someone/somethingA mild expression of annoyance or irritation. 表示轻度生气或恼怒讨厌 “Drat!” said Mitchell, kicking the fence Example sentencesExamples - Mind you, I'll be moving next month, so I'll be out of the neighbourhood - drat.
- And drat the luck, the search got just odd enough to tip the anecdote to column status, but not great column status.
- ‘Oh, drat,’ I muttered, doing my Victor Meldrew impression.
- She'd been obsessed with him, ever since, ever since… Oh I don't know, drat!
- Oh drat… did I make a mistake with the growing spell?
- No, wait, that was her name… drat, I didn't write down the name.
- I was thinking I'd be farther along in my nefarious plans before I got a super hero… drat it.
- My life, drat the luck, is nothing but incremental improvements - and all these little modifications are so twitchy and unstable I have to buy service contracts for the day when they blow up.
- On preview: most of these have been mentioned already - drat having to work in the middle of posting!
- Drat and double drat - no AA batteries in the house.
- I scan 24 and get out the credit card - but the site is unable to accept orders at the moment, drat the luck.
- We were going to head up the riverfront boulevard, but drat the luck: the driver noted that the tunnel beneath the bridge was three inches too short, and any attempt to go through the passageway would decapitate the people on the upper desk.
Synonyms damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett
OriginEarly 19th century: shortening of od rat, euphemism for God rot. |