I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
get out of/quit the rat race
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the story of a couple who quit the rat race
love rat
pack rat
rat race
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the story of a couple who quit the rat race
rat run
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The road has become a rat run for traffic avoiding the town centre.
rats' tails
water rat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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The omnivorous black rat consumes seeds, flowers and fruits, and many small animals.
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The black rat was far more of a town-dwelling species and dependent on human food.
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What is life for the 10,000 black rats living in Deshnok temple?
dead
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Blackrag Madonna is blind as a dead rat .
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Here and there, dead rats and other corpses float on the scum.
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It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats' dung.
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The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger.
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Fleas desert a dead rat faster than rats desert a sinking ship, and that makes sense.
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There was a dead rat , blown almost in two, resting on the hearth of the fire.
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I walked up and down on the bed, to control my trembling legs, and looked at the dead rat .
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She was delighted that I was not hurt, and threw the dead rat out of the window.
white
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Each cage held at least one white rat .
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I would try to elude notice, but I stood out like a white rat at a tomcat convention.
■ NOUN
pack
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I suspected they were pack rats because they were too smart to get themselves caught in the traps I set for them.
poison
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He said he only wanted to kill himself and claimed he ate rat poison and planned to inhale car exhaust fumes.
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Somewhere in Ohio a doctor has been jailed for feeding rat poison to his colleagues.
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The rat poison and insecticide was taken from a van at Farm lane in Crawley near Witney.
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Gullible hadn't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison .
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Just himself and Eloise, a cleaver, a gun, a spoonful of rat poison .
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Edinburgh Sheriff Court had heard that the boys bought the rat poison from Boots, and offered to cook dinner.
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Underneath the sink he found a large tin of rat poison .
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He would go down into the cellar tomorrow and put down some rat poison .
race
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Children are forced into the rat race for higher salary and prestige.
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An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery.
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Too much of a rat race .
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Life is a rat race . 35.
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At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job.
■ VERB
smell
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It is enough to make you smell a rat and be damned for your cynicism.
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He could smell a rat , and he knew just how the men had been cheated.
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I only began to smell a rat when he couldn't come up with the documents he claimed to have.
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Suffice to say, we smell a rat .
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She felt that he was beginning to smell a rat .
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I smell a rat here - I really do.
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Niki smelled the rat and said unless his driving contract were honoured, he would move to McLaren.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a plague of rats/locusts etc
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From Tracy Luv to Sarah-Lou, Corrie kids are as well-behaved as a plague of locusts.
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I wonder what really causes a plague of rats?
in rats' tails
smell a rat
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The investor doesn't start to smell a rat until the payments aren't coming in.
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We started to smell a rat when they asked for an extra £500 deposit.
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He could smell a rat, and he knew just how the men had been cheated.
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I smell a rat here - I really do.
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I only began to smell a rat when he couldn't come up with the documents he claimed to have.
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It is enough to make you smell a rat and be damned for your cynicism.
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She felt that he was beginning to smell a rat.
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Suffice to say, we smell a rat.
the rat race
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This is a good way to get back at that rat Yossarian.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the immature brain cells were the most effective treatment in the rats, says Sandberg.
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He ran on laughing, used to having rats thrown at him.
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Old steamboats with their scrollwork more scrolled and withered by weathers sat in the mud inhabited by rats.
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The rat weights did not differ between the groups.
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The rats eventually managed to press the lever very quickly after being placed in the box, in order to receive their reward.
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The rats must have learned the maze earlier and were demonstrating latent learning.
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The electrodes gave the rats access to their own stores of bliss-producing neurotransmitters.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a plague of rats/locusts etc
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From Tracy Luv to Sarah-Lou, Corrie kids are as well-behaved as a plague of locusts.
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I wonder what really causes a plague of rats?
in rats' tails
the rat race
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After that you ratted or rotted.
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I have to rat all he has reet.
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Looks like Rico got in on it, then decided like he was gon na rat to Spider.