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

Besides looking like a drowned rat, poor Lub found that his face was already swelling up.

From Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge by Silas K. Boone

Finally, he waded out, and stood, like a drowned rat, on the bank, pack and all streaming; then he collected himself after a pause, and doddered off towards the sok.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

"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

Now the average girl shaking out the wet masses of her hair looks like a drowned rat.

From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Edna Ferber

"Looks a heap like a drowned rat," said Mormon.

From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn