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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'sewer rat' is acceptable in written English.
It is usually used as a derogatory term to describe someone who is scummy or untrustworthy. Example sentence: "I don't trust him; he's nothing but a sewer rat."
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sewer rat
noun
A rat that lives in sewers
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Several ministers called for Sheik Nasrallah's death and one called him a "sewer rat".
"And I think you are a slimy, despicable sewer rat". That's telling him!
His antihero Michael Forsythe is as wary, cunning and ruthless as a sewer rat.
The latter incident led to his current manager at Leeds, Neil Warnock, comparing Diouf to a sewer rat.
(Playing a sewer rat, yes. But still. Kate Winslet.) Is his nemesis a giant toad with a fondness for royal family paraphernalia and an obsessive hatred of rodents?
In the rehearsal room, with a script freshly adapted by former company artistic director Andrew Upton, director Simon Phillips suggests Woods play Poche like a sewer rat.
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Sewer rats love sewer fat; high protein builds their sex drive.
Some years back, he began comparing wild sewer rats with clean lab rats.
They turn on one another with the viciousness of sewer rats.
The workers who call themselves "sewer rats" can be asphyxiated or choke on toxic fumes; people routinely pour poisons into the sewer system for illegal but convenient disposal.
Dr. Reed is careful to point out that the rats he treats are not the wild sewer rats that annoy, bite and generally spook New Yorkers.
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