drowned rat, like a/wet as a
drowned rat, like a/wet as a
Thoroughly soaked and utterly bedraggled. Despite their frequent presence in sewers and similar wet places, rats do not like water, a fact observed for many centuries (“It rained by the bucket and they came home wet as drowned rats,” Petronius, Satyricon, ca. a.d. 60). See also soaked to the skin.
See also: drown, like, wet
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- be soaked through
- soak (someone or something) through
- soak through
- all wet, to be
- be all wet
- all wet
- soaked through
- be soaked to the skin
- be/get soaked to the skin
- be soaked to the bone