Sentence examples for just a rat from inspiring English sources

The noises were dismissed as "just a rat running around inside the walls or something".

I tried talking tough to it - "You're just a rat with PR," that sort of thing - but this didn't make it any the more immediately cookable.

Lyrics like "despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage" and "I'm in love with my sadness" have become sing-alongs for alternative-rock fans, who like their heroes to be melancholy instead of macho.

He lives in Washington -- the city he grew up in, a city he hates; his hatred of the government is, as he puts it, "personal" -- in an apartment adorned with a painting he commissioned based on a Smashing Pumpkins lyric, "I am still just a rat in a cage".

Less than a month after losing his Montgomeryshire seat, the former Lib Dem MP took the stage last night at the Backstage Comedy Club in central London, a cramped basement venue just a rat's tail from Leicester Square tube.

Despite all his rage, he is still just a rat in a cage.

"Domestic airlines these days treat you just like a rat," he said.

Or, perhaps you just smell a rat.

New research reveals that, just like a rat clinging to a piece of floating wood after a flood, pathogenic microorganisms can set up shop aboard drifting bits of fish feces and other debris and ride them to far-flung destinations.

Like: had I just found a rat the size of a dog scurrying around in some shallow dock water and killed it with a stick, I would be much more freaked out than, "Afternoon everyone".

Phew, just a dead rat in the cellar, this time.