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Definition of rat in English: ratnounPlural rats ratræt 1A rodent that resembles a large mouse, typically having a pointed snout and a long tail. Some kinds have become cosmopolitan and are sometimes responsible for transmitting diseases. 鼠；耗子 Family Muridae: many genera, including Rattus (the Old World rats), and several hundred species Example sentencesExamples - Wistar albino rats were divided into five groups.
- Luckily we didn't see any dead rats.
- We used 18 male adult hooded rats that were maintained under the same conditions as those in Experiment 1.
- Pigeons cooed from the rooftops of buildings, and rats scurried along the floor.
- Cane rats should not be confused with domestic rodents such as rats and mice which can be disease-carrying vermin.
- It turns out that mice and rats and some other rodents have hearing which looks very similar to ours.
- One rat's nest can turn into a colony of 50 rats in six months.
- The number of genetic differences between humans and chimps is ten times smaller than that between mice and rats.
- Admittedly some of the rodents that possess the ability, such as rats and mice, are almost completely nocturnal.
- He notes that wild cats may have been drawn to settlements where grain stores attracted rats and mice.
- Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets.
- Bodies start to smell like dead rats if you leave them in one place too long.
- Control lung tissue was also obtained from adult male rats.
- Adult male albino rats were housed in the controlled temperature and photoperiod.
- Despite the situation, they're not lab rats in a cage; they're fellow human beings.
- Up until 1987 this kind of experiment had only done in rodents, rats and mice, and in lower organisms.
- Inside his Manhattan brownstone lurks something even more terrifying than his business associates: a giant sewer rat.
- What's the difference between a water vole and a rat?
- One resident said she has seen rats scurrying out to snatch discarded pieces of bread in broad daylight.
- In one study, researchers exposed laboratory rats to a toxin that is known to cause Parkinson's disease.
2informal A despicable person, especially a man who has been deceitful or disloyal. 〈非正式〉卑鄙小人（尤指欺诈或变节者） her rat of a husband cheated on her Example sentencesExamples - He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
- We went back to the set and I watched the Falcon escape from bondage and alert the cops to where the crime boss and his rats were hiding out.
- He then recognised the ship approaching them ‘I should've known that rat would be here.’
- Even Thatcher herself wouldn't have dreamed that the king rat builders would so effectively take over an entire country's development with no real opposition.
- I spat at him, ‘I hope your wife finds out what a cheating, lying rat you really are and you get all that you deserve!’
- Pretty soon, the hooligans, graffiti artists, drug addicts, pushers - and rats - take over.
- You know every rat, snitch and scoundrel on this island, and between them they know everything shady that transpires.
- She's doing it all for her own self pleasure, that rat!
- Most especially, every jerk bureaucrat and greedy welfare rat (particularly the rich ones) with a hand in the public till gets to vote.
- ‘For your information this little rat insulted me’ Debbie huffed sticking her chin up snobbishly.
- He was so unworthy, a lowly thief, a rat, unfit to breathe Her Majesty's air.
- Congratulations to Bob, you rat, despite not, building in A01 and NMRing three times.
- How can you make a philandering love cheat, who works his way through a family of sisters, anything but a rogue and a rat?
- Here was the building that housed the penthouse where Nick had lived, and where she'd met his street rat friend that actually caught her heart for a time.
- The good news is that his adviser, that rat Fred Tough, has had to go with him.
- If you're out there you rat, I finally caught on and I want my money back.
Synonyms scoundrel, wretch, rogue informal beast, pig, swine, bastard, creep, louse, snake, snake in the grass, bum, lowlife, scumbag, heel, skunk, dog, weasel British informal scrote North American informal rat fink Irish informal sleeveen Australian informal dingo dated rotter, cad, bounder vulgar slang shit - 2.1 An informer.
坐探，告密者 he became the most famous rat in mob history Example sentencesExamples - These rats do whistle an alarm, but we didn't hear it.
- He was supposedly the rat who betrayed the Gibraltar Three, the Eksund gun runners and the IRA men assassinated at Loughgall.
- She may not be a barracks rat, but she's not too far off.
- It is funny to see that the rats at various British intelligence agencies are already trying to avoid the blame for the lies told to the British people by Blair.
- I go by beeper now because there's too many rats [informants] on the street.
- I would ask you again whether the killing of a rat is murder?
- It's different when Right Wingers want to crush free speech and create a police state environment of informers and rats in a house of worship.
- Mr. Ken told me that the rat was an informant for the enemy.
- Nadeau, as his name would indicate, has no love for informants and rejects the notion that he was a rat.
Synonyms informer, betrayer, stool pigeon informal snitch, finger, squealer, nose British informal grass, supergrass, nark, snout Scottish & Northern Irish informal tout North American informal fink, stoolie Australian informal fizgig, pimp, shelf archaic intelligencer, beagle
3North American informal with modifier A person who is associated with or frequents a specified place. 〈北美〉老是出没游逛于某处的人，常客 Example sentencesExamples - THERE ARE DOZENS OF dilemmas facing the average gym rat every time he steps foot in the weight room.
- Mali, while seeming sophisticated, wanders in and out of ghetto rat behavior, especially when it comes to her man, Tad Honeywell.
- Rhyming, however, is the favourite sound effect of slang, as in boob tube television, frat rat member of a US college fraternity.
- Then or course there's the biggest closet rat of all, me.
- That bum sitting on a heating grate, smelling like a wharf rat?
- After spending a long, hard winter as a gym rat shut-in, you're probably hot to trot outdoors.
- Contrary to popular opinion, in general they are not just attracting low lifes, low-end demographic users, gym rats and the like.
- And the bag boys all seem to be happy, happy surf rats, with funny haircuts and pretty smiles.
- There's nowhere else I'd rather be right now - on a trip in South Africa with a good crew and having fun, skating everyday, and doing a real skate rat tour.
- Cardboard cutouts of the love rat MP are proliferating.
- Too many effective leaders have behaved badly in their love lives to make credible the claim that being a love rat is incompatible with being a good president.
- The strike taught these wharf rats about power - that working people could get it, and wield it with devastating effect, if they understood that the world depended on them.
- Peralta ripping in back of Mar Vista Elementary School - the first playground he was officially kicked out of as a young skate rat.
- At the first, it was decided to axe three popular characters - love rat doctor Matt Ramsden, his teacher wife Charlie, and shopworker Bobbi Lewis.
- I believe in spirits - I think we all do - and I don't think this woman who lived in this house was too happy when skate rats all showed up to ride her pool.
- I'm the one who always has to get out front and say ‘no’, and explain, and be the lousy wharf rat because they think I'm running a fraud.
- You had your hardcore kids, punks, and skate rats big on yelling and beer, skeptical of synths and Englishmen.
- I'm a 46-year-old Ohio river rat who's gone there half a dozen times to mountain bike and ski.
- The promo challenges non-gym rats to get in shape during a 30-day period.
- Gym rats from the east to the west coast prefer tank tops because they allow for complete range of motion and allow gym buffs to admire their flexed muscles at all times.
- Shouldn't we at least insist she sells some records like, this decade, before she gets any more coverage for her sex romp/love rat lifestyle?
- He fought a handful of amateur and charity fights, earning him some credit as a middle-aged gym rat.
- Some eighteen year old street rat from Paris, France… I wanted him so badly in my world of glitz and glamour… what am I saying?
4US A pad used to give shape and fullness to a woman's hair. 〈美〉（为头发定型做出饱满效果的）女用发垫
exclamationratræt ratsinformal Used to express mild annoyance or irritation. 〈非正式〉胡说，去你的（用以表示轻度烦恼，恼怒） Example sentencesExamples - I just came upstairs to check the price of something on eBay (under $10, rats!) and saw the clock.
- Divisions were actually for sale at Behnke, a nursery local to me and I didn't know it - rats!
Synonyms damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, Gordon Bennett British bother informal drat, sugar, botheration, flip, flipping heck/hell British informal dash, blooming heck/hell, blinking heck/hell North American informal doggone it, shucks, shoot, tarnation Indian informal arré dated confound it, pish
verbrats, ratted, ratting ratræt [no object]1usually as noun rattingHunt or kill rats. ratting is second nature to a Jack Russell Example sentencesExamples - The Border is a hunter, earth dog, show dog and obedience dog, a whiz at agility trials, ratting in the barns and tracking.
- We reckon the dog might be a bit handy at ratting or hare coursing.
- In another era, perhaps he and his mates would simply have gone out poaching or ratting, grumbling about bloody women along the way.
- The Shar Pei still exhibits these herding and ratting instincts.
- The dog is immensely pleased with herself; she is heavily pregnant and ratting was evidently a highly desirable break in just sitting in a corner of the kitchen day after day inflating and waiting for the puppies.
- The Giant Schnauzer's original job was ratting.
2informal Desert one's party, side, or cause. 〈非正式〉变节，背叛；当工贼 many of the clans rallied to his support, others ratted and joined the King's forces Example sentencesExamples - The Stability Pact was to have kept the currency health, but it became inconvenient for France, which ratted, followed by Germany, France, Italy, Holland, and Greece.
- Ratting on your mates is regarded as a sin in Australia, but if your mates have done the wrong thing and the ratting merely comprises a truthful public disclosure of some relevant information, then it should be encouraged.
- Shortly afterwards, getting into his car, he was called by name and, when he turned, was shot through the forehead by a fellow extremist who suspected he had ratted.
- Yeah, I'll bet she's just the type to rat, eh, Eddie?
- That's especially true if the White House really did call six or more reporters with this leak, since that means that if the names come out there's no way of knowing which reporter ratted.
- Anna hit me in the arm a little mad that I had ratted so easily.
- The other men don't shoot the soldier who ratted, however.
- Unfortunately, after republicans ratted and robbed and killed and the two governments failed to punish them with more than the odd ‘tut, tut’ unionists decided they'd been sold a pup.
- Here's an interesting one about sneaky civil servants using their access to databases to rat to the press on Lotto winners.
- He always said that he wouldn't tell on me but he always ended up ratting.
- And it's equally unsurprising that he would deny it when one of those Liberal insiders ratted and went public.
- Talk of Bob Sercombe ratting is just that, his self-preservation demands him staying where he is.
3US with object Shape (hair) with a rat. 〈美〉用发垫给（头发）定型 Example sentencesExamples - All he knew was the sad grey eyes of the man, and his long ratted graying hair.
- Why does a girl like Gwynie have to go and rat up her hair like that?
- Her ponytail was ratted and her bangs were sticking up all over while her braids were perfectly fine as they always were.
- There was Stacey in her big girl bra, ratted out hair and adult acne.
- She's got long black hair, ratted and dry, and it hangs down over her shoulders like a fern that hasn't been watered in weeks.
Phraseslike a rat up a drainpipe informal Very quickly or eagerly. I shot up the ladder like a rat up a drainpipe Example sentencesExamples - She was like a rat up a drainpipe in her haste to get to Upper Harbour.
- If these proposed "innovations" are so marvellous, why aren't private investors piling into them like a rat up a drainpipe!?
- Give him an opening and he's in there, like a rat up a drainpipe.
- Every time the door is opened, a woman snaps in front of us like a rat up a pipe.
- The Australian Competition Consumer Commission will be on to monkey business concerning any price-gouging like a rat up a drainpipe.
- If the technology is truly feasible and saves money as they say it does, then the private market will be into it like a rat up a drainpipe.
- If he sells the bank, which he has said he will do, then she will be on to him like a rat up a drainpipe.
- I can't help thinking if her children were bullied, she would be in the head's office like a rat up a drainpipe.
- If it had been a victory, Craig would have been in there like a rat up a drainpipe to make sure he got full credit and lots of pictures in the local paper.
- He ran away like a rat up a drainpipe.
Phrasal Verbs he refused to rat on his buddies Example sentencesExamples - He believes (correctly, as it turns out) that a fellow officer has been ratting him out to the precinct's captain.
- The last thing that I need is Zach ratting me out to my parents.
- ‘I don't think you should rat her out, but let her know you saw her cheating and that it could get her in a lot of trouble,’ suggests Lindsay.
- I like her and she lets me get out of class when I need to without ratting me out.
- You ever considered ratting her out to your parents?
- ‘Thanks,’ I said once we were out of the office, ‘for not ratting me out.’
- I hadn't planned on ratting Ryan out anyway, but his response had taken me by surprise.
- It would perhaps be different if the only two alternatives were ratting him out or deceiving her employer.
- Words and titles are about to become very important as people figure out which one of Cheney's goons ratted her out.
- Christy was going to pay dearly for ratting her out.
Synonyms inform against, inform on, betray, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break one's promise to, break faith with, sell out, stab someone in the back - 1.1Break (an agreement or promise)
撕毁（协议）；违背（诺言） he accused the government of ratting on an earlier pledge 他指控政府不兑现早先的承诺。 Example sentencesExamples - Whatever the cause, France ratted on his agreement, retaking Brest by force.
- President George Bush has ratted on the US commitment to reduce the pollution that is causing climate chaos across the globe.
- The press have also ratted on virtually every ‘deal’ they've ever entered into concerning a bit of privacy for William and Harry.
- Mind you, I had to do a bit of fast footwork to get the Foreign Office to rat on that fisheries deal that Jack Straw had done with Alex Salmond.
- If we believe Gordon's account, as relayed through Robert Peston, Blair ratted on a promise to go by November of last year.
- Allies of the Chancellor accused Downing Street of ratting on a deal struck between the two men to maintain a united front when dealing with Britain's pensions time bomb.
- He ratted on his promise to take me with him - saying that there would be questions in the parliament if he spent too much money.
- It is about the government ratting on an undertaking.
Synonyms break, renege on, go back on, back out of, default on, welsh on
OriginOld English ræt, probably of Romance origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old French rat. The verb dates from the early 19th century. The rat has been part of our language since Anglo-Saxon times, but its ultimate origin is not known. It probably goes back to the time when the creature first came to Europe from Asia. The term rat race has been used since the mid 20th century. The image behind this is of rats struggling with each other to move forward in a confined space, rather than of the ordered world of a race track. Sailing ships would traditionally have been infested with rats, which would try to escape en masse from a vessel that was in trouble. This gave rise to rats deserting a sinking ship. A person has been a rat since the 1760s, and 50 or so years later to rat started to mean ‘to desert a cause, become a traitor’ and then ‘to inform on’. Someone who suspects a trick is said to smell a rat—a phrase which in the 18th century is found as part of an elaborate mixed metaphor attributed to an Irish politician, Boyle Roche: ‘Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud.’
Rhymesat, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, 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-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat Definition of rat in US English: ratnounratræt 1A rodent that resembles a large mouse, typically having a pointed snout and a long, sparsely haired tail. Some kinds have become cosmopolitan and are sometimes responsible for transmitting diseases. 鼠；耗子 Family Muridae: many genera, including Rattus (the Old World rats), and several hundred species Example sentencesExamples - He notes that wild cats may have been drawn to settlements where grain stores attracted rats and mice.
- What's the difference between a water vole and a rat?
- We used 18 male adult hooded rats that were maintained under the same conditions as those in Experiment 1.
- Adult male albino rats were housed in the controlled temperature and photoperiod.
- Bodies start to smell like dead rats if you leave them in one place too long.
- In one study, researchers exposed laboratory rats to a toxin that is known to cause Parkinson's disease.
- Admittedly some of the rodents that possess the ability, such as rats and mice, are almost completely nocturnal.
- Despite the situation, they're not lab rats in a cage; they're fellow human beings.
- Control lung tissue was also obtained from adult male rats.
- One rat's nest can turn into a colony of 50 rats in six months.
- It turns out that mice and rats and some other rodents have hearing which looks very similar to ours.
- The number of genetic differences between humans and chimps is ten times smaller than that between mice and rats.
- Wistar albino rats were divided into five groups.
- Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets.
- Luckily we didn't see any dead rats.
- Cane rats should not be confused with domestic rodents such as rats and mice which can be disease-carrying vermin.
- Pigeons cooed from the rooftops of buildings, and rats scurried along the floor.
- Up until 1987 this kind of experiment had only done in rodents, rats and mice, and in lower organisms.
- One resident said she has seen rats scurrying out to snatch discarded pieces of bread in broad daylight.
- Inside his Manhattan brownstone lurks something even more terrifying than his business associates: a giant sewer rat.
2informal A person regarded as despicable, especially a man who has been deceitful or disloyal. 〈非正式〉卑鄙小人（尤指欺诈或变节者） Example sentencesExamples - Most especially, every jerk bureaucrat and greedy welfare rat (particularly the rich ones) with a hand in the public till gets to vote.
- ‘For your information this little rat insulted me’ Debbie huffed sticking her chin up snobbishly.
- If you're out there you rat, I finally caught on and I want my money back.
- I spat at him, ‘I hope your wife finds out what a cheating, lying rat you really are and you get all that you deserve!’
- Even Thatcher herself wouldn't have dreamed that the king rat builders would so effectively take over an entire country's development with no real opposition.
- She's doing it all for her own self pleasure, that rat!
- How can you make a philandering love cheat, who works his way through a family of sisters, anything but a rogue and a rat?
- We went back to the set and I watched the Falcon escape from bondage and alert the cops to where the crime boss and his rats were hiding out.
- Pretty soon, the hooligans, graffiti artists, drug addicts, pushers - and rats - take over.
- Congratulations to Bob, you rat, despite not, building in A01 and NMRing three times.
- He then recognised the ship approaching them ‘I should've known that rat would be here.’
- You know every rat, snitch and scoundrel on this island, and between them they know everything shady that transpires.
- He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
- Here was the building that housed the penthouse where Nick had lived, and where she'd met his street rat friend that actually caught her heart for a time.
- The good news is that his adviser, that rat Fred Tough, has had to go with him.
- He was so unworthy, a lowly thief, a rat, unfit to breathe Her Majesty's air.
- 2.1 An informer.
坐探，告密者 Example sentencesExamples - These rats do whistle an alarm, but we didn't hear it.
- She may not be a barracks rat, but she's not too far off.
- I would ask you again whether the killing of a rat is murder?
- Nadeau, as his name would indicate, has no love for informants and rejects the notion that he was a rat.
- It is funny to see that the rats at various British intelligence agencies are already trying to avoid the blame for the lies told to the British people by Blair.
- It's different when Right Wingers want to crush free speech and create a police state environment of informers and rats in a house of worship.
- I go by beeper now because there's too many rats [informants] on the street.
- He was supposedly the rat who betrayed the Gibraltar Three, the Eksund gun runners and the IRA men assassinated at Loughgall.
- Mr. Ken told me that the rat was an informant for the enemy.
Synonyms informer, betrayer, stool pigeon
3North American informal with modifier A person who is associated with or frequents a specified place. 〈北美〉老是出没游逛于某处的人，常客 you and the rest of the tavern rats will have to find a new hangout Example sentencesExamples - The promo challenges non-gym rats to get in shape during a 30-day period.
- And the bag boys all seem to be happy, happy surf rats, with funny haircuts and pretty smiles.
- Contrary to popular opinion, in general they are not just attracting low lifes, low-end demographic users, gym rats and the like.
- He fought a handful of amateur and charity fights, earning him some credit as a middle-aged gym rat.
- Gym rats from the east to the west coast prefer tank tops because they allow for complete range of motion and allow gym buffs to admire their flexed muscles at all times.
- I'm the one who always has to get out front and say ‘no’, and explain, and be the lousy wharf rat because they think I'm running a fraud.
- That bum sitting on a heating grate, smelling like a wharf rat?
- I believe in spirits - I think we all do - and I don't think this woman who lived in this house was too happy when skate rats all showed up to ride her pool.
- THERE ARE DOZENS OF dilemmas facing the average gym rat every time he steps foot in the weight room.
- I'm a 46-year-old Ohio river rat who's gone there half a dozen times to mountain bike and ski.
- Rhyming, however, is the favourite sound effect of slang, as in boob tube television, frat rat member of a US college fraternity.
- Then or course there's the biggest closet rat of all, me.
- You had your hardcore kids, punks, and skate rats big on yelling and beer, skeptical of synths and Englishmen.
- At the first, it was decided to axe three popular characters - love rat doctor Matt Ramsden, his teacher wife Charlie, and shopworker Bobbi Lewis.
- After spending a long, hard winter as a gym rat shut-in, you're probably hot to trot outdoors.
- Some eighteen year old street rat from Paris, France… I wanted him so badly in my world of glitz and glamour… what am I saying?
- Cardboard cutouts of the love rat MP are proliferating.
- Peralta ripping in back of Mar Vista Elementary School - the first playground he was officially kicked out of as a young skate rat.
- Too many effective leaders have behaved badly in their love lives to make credible the claim that being a love rat is incompatible with being a good president.
- Shouldn't we at least insist she sells some records like, this decade, before she gets any more coverage for her sex romp/love rat lifestyle?
- Mali, while seeming sophisticated, wanders in and out of ghetto rat behavior, especially when it comes to her man, Tad Honeywell.
- There's nowhere else I'd rather be right now - on a trip in South Africa with a good crew and having fun, skating everyday, and doing a real skate rat tour.
- The strike taught these wharf rats about power - that working people could get it, and wield it with devastating effect, if they understood that the world depended on them.
4US A pad used to give shape and fullness to a woman's hair. 〈美〉（为头发定型做出饱满效果的）女用发垫
exclamationratræt ratsinformal Used to express mild annoyance or irritation. 〈非正式〉胡说，去你的（用以表示轻度烦恼，恼怒） Example sentencesExamples - Divisions were actually for sale at Behnke, a nursery local to me and I didn't know it - rats!
- I just came upstairs to check the price of something on eBay (under $10, rats!) and saw the clock.
Synonyms damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett
verbratræt [no object]1usually as noun ratting(of a person, dog, or cat) hunt or kill rats. （人，狗，猫）捕（捉）老鼠；灭鼠 Example sentencesExamples - The Border is a hunter, earth dog, show dog and obedience dog, a whiz at agility trials, ratting in the barns and tracking.
- We reckon the dog might be a bit handy at ratting or hare coursing.
- In another era, perhaps he and his mates would simply have gone out poaching or ratting, grumbling about bloody women along the way.
- The Shar Pei still exhibits these herding and ratting instincts.
- The Giant Schnauzer's original job was ratting.
- The dog is immensely pleased with herself; she is heavily pregnant and ratting was evidently a highly desirable break in just sitting in a corner of the kitchen day after day inflating and waiting for the puppies.
2informal Desert one's party, side, or cause. 〈非正式〉变节，背叛；当工贼 Example sentencesExamples - The Stability Pact was to have kept the currency health, but it became inconvenient for France, which ratted, followed by Germany, France, Italy, Holland, and Greece.
- Unfortunately, after republicans ratted and robbed and killed and the two governments failed to punish them with more than the odd ‘tut, tut’ unionists decided they'd been sold a pup.
- That's especially true if the White House really did call six or more reporters with this leak, since that means that if the names come out there's no way of knowing which reporter ratted.
- He always said that he wouldn't tell on me but he always ended up ratting.
- Shortly afterwards, getting into his car, he was called by name and, when he turned, was shot through the forehead by a fellow extremist who suspected he had ratted.
- Ratting on your mates is regarded as a sin in Australia, but if your mates have done the wrong thing and the ratting merely comprises a truthful public disclosure of some relevant information, then it should be encouraged.
- Anna hit me in the arm a little mad that I had ratted so easily.
- Yeah, I'll bet she's just the type to rat, eh, Eddie?
- Here's an interesting one about sneaky civil servants using their access to databases to rat to the press on Lotto winners.
- Talk of Bob Sercombe ratting is just that, his self-preservation demands him staying where he is.
- The other men don't shoot the soldier who ratted, however.
- And it's equally unsurprising that he would deny it when one of those Liberal insiders ratted and went public.
3US Give (hair) shape or fullness with a rat. Example sentencesExamples - Her ponytail was ratted and her bangs were sticking up all over while her braids were perfectly fine as they always were.
- Why does a girl like Gwynie have to go and rat up her hair like that?
- All he knew was the sad grey eyes of the man, and his long ratted graying hair.
- There was Stacey in her big girl bra, ratted out hair and adult acne.
- She's got long black hair, ratted and dry, and it hangs down over her shoulders like a fern that hasn't been watered in weeks.
Phrasal Verbs1Inform on (someone) to a person in a position of authority. 告发 I never thought Stash would rat on me men will literally choose death over ratting out another prisoner 男人们确实宁肯死掉也不愿告发其他囚犯。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Thanks,’ I said once we were out of the office, ‘for not ratting me out.’
- It would perhaps be different if the only two alternatives were ratting him out or deceiving her employer.
- Words and titles are about to become very important as people figure out which one of Cheney's goons ratted her out.
- ‘I don't think you should rat her out, but let her know you saw her cheating and that it could get her in a lot of trouble,’ suggests Lindsay.
- You ever considered ratting her out to your parents?
- The last thing that I need is Zach ratting me out to my parents.
- He believes (correctly, as it turns out) that a fellow officer has been ratting him out to the precinct's captain.
- I hadn't planned on ratting Ryan out anyway, but his response had taken me by surprise.
- Christy was going to pay dearly for ratting her out.
- I like her and she lets me get out of class when I need to without ratting me out.
Synonyms inform against, inform on, betray, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break one's promise to, break faith with, sell out, stab someone in the back - 1.1Break (an agreement or promise)
撕毁（协议）；违背（诺言） he accused the government of ratting on an earlier pledge 他指控政府不兑现早先的承诺。 Example sentencesExamples - The press have also ratted on virtually every ‘deal’ they've ever entered into concerning a bit of privacy for William and Harry.
- Allies of the Chancellor accused Downing Street of ratting on a deal struck between the two men to maintain a united front when dealing with Britain's pensions time bomb.
- If we believe Gordon's account, as relayed through Robert Peston, Blair ratted on a promise to go by November of last year.
- Whatever the cause, France ratted on his agreement, retaking Brest by force.
- Mind you, I had to do a bit of fast footwork to get the Foreign Office to rat on that fisheries deal that Jack Straw had done with Alex Salmond.
- President George Bush has ratted on the US commitment to reduce the pollution that is causing climate chaos across the globe.
- He ratted on his promise to take me with him - saying that there would be questions in the parliament if he spent too much money.
- It is about the government ratting on an undertaking.
Synonyms break, renege on, go back on, back out of, default on, welsh on
OriginOld English ræt, probably of Romance origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old French rat. The verb dates from the early 19th century. |