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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like a drowned rat

It is said that Wolfe scrambled from the water like a drowned rat and led the rush with no other weapon in hand but his cane.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

"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 Sir Max Pemberton

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 H. Louisa Bedford

For one, I’m wet and cold and look like a drowned rat; I can’t offer myself to a hotel looking like this—can I?

From The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance

He stopped in a hurry when he saw the half drowned little monkey coming out of the pond looking 138more like a drowned rat than a monkey.

From Billy Whiskers' Adventures by Paul Hawthorne

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