look like a drowned rat

Related to word: drown

Idiom

Definition

  1. to appear extremely wet, typically from being caught in heavy rain; to be drenched and disheveled

    • He ran home through the downpour and looked like a drowned rat.

    • After walking for ten minutes in the heavy rain, I looked like a drowned rat.

    • The children looked like drowned rats after playing in the rain.