look like a drowned rat
look like a drowned rat
To be soaking wet, especially due to heavy rain. You poor thing, you look like a drowned rat! The kids came home looking like a bunch of drowned rats.
See also: drown, like, look, rat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
look like a drowned rat
If someone looks like a drowned rat, they are very wet, usually because they have been caught in heavy rain. I had no umbrella with me so by the time I got home, I looked like a drowned rat.
See also: drown, like, look, rat
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- like a drowned rat
- come in out of the rain
- drown out
- come to (someone's) aid
- stem from
- stem from (something)
- stemmed
- make the welkin ring
- sewer rat
- Rats!