sack rat Idiom, Proverb

cut-rate

sell for a price lower than usual We went to a cut-rate furniture store to buy some new furniture for our apartment.

dirty dog/dirty rat

immoral person, liar, scum, slimebucket You dirty rat! You stole my truck and used my credit card!

drat

oh no, nuts, rats, scrut Drat! I've lost the key. How can we get into the apartment?

from scratch

from the very beginning He decided to build the house from scratch.

Generation X

"people born in the 1970s; a generation that wanted to change the work ethic" Generation X said that the jobs disappeared as they graduated from high school and university.

going rate

(See the going rate)

rat on

tell the police or the authorities, squeal Billy won't rat on me. He won't tell the teacher.

rat out on

desert or betray someone, leave at a critical time His friend ratted out on him when he refused to support him in his fight with the neighborhood bully.

rat race

rushing around, confusing way of living that does not seem to have a purpose He is tired of living in the rat race every day and plans to quit his job soon and do something else.

ratch

damage, wreck, trash Who ratched the gears on my bike? I can't shift into low!

sack rat

slang Addition who spends an disproportionate bulk of time sleeping or lounging in bed. ("Sack" is a chatty appellation for "bed.") I acclimated to be such a sack rat back I was in college, spending absolute canicule in bed. Now that I accept kids, I'm advantageous if I can get eight ceaseless hours in bed anniversary night.Learn more: rat, sack

sack rat

n. addition who spends a lot of time in bed; addition who does not anytime assume to get abundant sleep. Tom is such a sack rat. He can’t assume to get abundant sleep. Learn more: rat, sack

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