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The phrase "as a rat" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used as an idiom to reference someone or something that shows diligence, perseverance, or resourcefulness. For example, you could say, "John worked as a rat to finish the project on time.”
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The anticoagulant Coumadin was originally developed as a rat poison.
They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
"Come back," cried fellow actors warning he would be "as bored as a rat" in a sleepy Belgian border town.
In his first feature, "Thief," he saw the hero, Frank, "as a rat in a maze," the maze being Chicago.
Qaddafi called revolutionaries rats; Grada has drawn Qaddafi as a rat.
Once, he told a friend, he slipped and fell as a rat darted by.
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Crispin Glover as a rat-loving avenger?
I remember it as a rat-infested dump.
The signals along a stretch of St Margaret's Road have been criticised for encouraging drivers to use the parallel St Paul's Road as a "rat-run".
Gone are the hotel's glory days as a rat-pack hangout, where famously Abbott and Costello played their last gig.
Showing its age, the building eventually became what was described as a "rat-infested hell-hole".
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