19 Metaphors for ratting

" The Pine Rat, in his vocation as a picker-up of every unconsidered trifle, is an adept at charcoal-burning, on the sly.

Rats and mice were their only companions, and Sunday was the only day on which they were gladdened by the daylight.

THE COMPETITION HAS BEEN VERY KEEN INDEED THE RAT IS A NEAR RELATION OF THE SQUIRREL ZOOLOGICALLY

Every damn rat is a spy.

Rats in particular, which they encourage to breed, and eat as great delicacies; in fact, there are very few creatures they will not eat.

Rats have been his medium of study, for they are most easily procurable, live fastest, breed, and withstand experimental and operative procedures better than any other animal.

Rats are the great foe of the crops.

Rats are, indeed, the most despised and contemptible parts of God's earth, I killed a rat the other day by punching him to pieces, and feel a weight of blood upon me to this hour.

The gymnasium was filled with a dense crowd of boys; "Rats," Maxton, and some other members of the Lower Fourth were fighting for seats on the parallel bars, and throughout tho whole assembly there was a subdued murmur of interest and expectation.

Rats are my abhorrence, and I learned with pleasure that some poison had been placed under the transit-house.

" I fared well at dinner, for he pared off all the places which he supposed the rats had nibbled at, and gave them to me, saying, "There, eat that; rats are very clean animals."

Even the rat and dog were introduced by Europeans; and the rat is at present the principal species of game.

Was not a Prophet murdered by a Lyon? King Herod died of Lice, wormes doe eate us all; The Rats are wormes, then let the Rats eate me.

Rats are not held in very high esteem by other animals; but the black rats at Glimminge castle were an exception.

"But so to do," quoth Beltane, "rats must become wolves.

No big caribou or cunning fox cub, as one might suppose, but "rats and mice and such small deer" were the limit of the mother's ambition for her little ones.

The rat is the concisest tenant.

Rats were a favourite topic with him, and he would never allow one to be killed if he could help it, for he claimed for them that they were the souls of drowned sailors, hence their love of ships and their habit of leaving them when they became unseaworthy.

The rats were ledby Cu-ri-os-ity.

19 Metaphors for  ratting