like a drowned rat
English
Prepositional phrase
like a drowned rat
- (simile, informal) Soaked to the point of being highly unattractive; bedraggled.
- to look like a drowned rat
Further reading
- “like a drowned rat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “like a drowned rat”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “like a drowned rat” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “look like a drowned rat” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “look like a drowned rat” (US) / “look like a drowned rat” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.