like a drowned rat

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Also, wet as a drowned rat . Soaking wet and utterly bedraggled, as in When she came in out of the rain she looked like a drowned rat . This simile appeared in Latin nearly 2,000 years ago, and in English about the year 1500.

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[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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