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

I think it was the surprise of seeing that fellow Lessingham crawl on to the wreck looking like a drowned rat.

From The Zeppelin's Passenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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

From A Tale of the Summer Holidays by Mockler, Geraldine

"Except ourselves, yer honour," said a little Englishman, who was cowering like a drowned rat, "which they throw'd overboard, like the whales in the Scriptures, never a fish."

From The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Pemberton, Max, Sir

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

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival

Because, if we had to go on being poor after our great expectations, nothing could possibly matter, not even looking like a drowned rat.

From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Anderson, Karl