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like a drowned rat

like a drowned rat prepositional phrase: soaked to the point of being highly unattractive; bedraggled.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (informal, simile) Soaked to the point of being highly unattractive; bedraggled.
    • to look like a drowned rat

Questions about like a drowned rat

What does like a drowned rat mean?
Like a drowned rat means soaked to the point of being highly unattractive; bedraggled.
What part of speech is like a drowned rat?
Like a drowned rat is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like a drowned rat in the dictionary

  1. like a dog with a bone
  2. like a dog with two dicks
  3. like a dog with two tails
  4. like a dose of salts
  5. like a dream
  6. like a drowned rat
  7. like a duck takes to water
  8. like a duck to water
  9. like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
  10. like a fart in church
  11. like a hawk

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