like a drowned rat

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Don’t know what the people at Catalpa Terrace will say to see me coming home looking like a drowned rat, don’t you know,” and Peter grinned in a silly, self-important way.

From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

You look like a drowned rat, and your neck is clawed.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival

Lisa sat like a drowned rat and cried till she choked.

From What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself by Zwilgmeyer, Dikken

"Why, it looks more like a drowned rat than anything else."

From A Tale of the Summer Holidays by Mockler, Geraldine

What!—slip out of life like a drowned rat and never see Rose again, nor tell her what he knew of the man she had chosen in preference to him.

From The Village by the River by Bedford, H. Louisa