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The phrase "a rat on a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in a context where you are describing a situation involving a rat, but it needs to be part of a complete thought or sentence.
Example: "I saw a rat on a fence, scurrying away from the noise."
Alternatives: "a rat on a wire" or "a rat on a ledge."
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Think of you in your wheelchair and me with a rat on a platter, me all Bette Davis late-career screech".
Seeds of uncertainty The elements of style Let the sun shine in The Richard Casement internship ReprintsYou cannot, of course, put a rat on a couch and ask it about its hallucinations.
The treadmill makes me a rat on a wheel.
A snapshot of a rat on a pizza in John Waters' house.
For example, Sutherland and Linggard (1982), Keith and McVety (1988), and Jacobs et al. (1989a), all found that placing a rat on a submerged platform in a circular pool surround by landmarks aided subsequent searching for the platform when rats were released into the pool.
We performed the rotarod test using an accelerating rotarod by placing a rat on a rotating drum (3 cm diameter) and measuring the time for which each animal was able to maintain its balance on the rod as latency time to fall (seconds).
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I noted that Rogan had a tattoo of a rat on his neck, a rat that had just been knifed and was crying.
A rat on the subway?
He described: "A girl…who had a rat on her shoulder attached by a chain that ran over her dress... .. and "two blokes [with] bald heads...dressed up as surgeons, complete with rubber gloves and stethoscopes".
[The Christian Science Monitor] Harry Reid of Nevada, leader of the Senate's Democratic majority, rips into a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in an interview, calling him "treacherous" and "a rat" on the issue of a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
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