Rat in spanish
Rata
pronunciation: rɑtɑ part of speech: noun
pronunciation: rɑtɑ part of speech: noun
In gestures
rat1 = rata.
Example: There are two books published under the titles 'Denmark's Day of Doom' and 'Rats in the Larder'.more:
» black rat, the = rata negra, la.
Example: The black rat can be infected with the Black Plague and spread the disease via fleas.» desert rat = rata del desierto.
Example: This area is visited only by desert rats, biologists, military personnel, and those desperate people willing to walk across as much as 60 miles of waterless trail.» dumpster rat = mendigo que rebusca en la basura.
Example: Trashing books, however, was recognized to be a perilous undertaking, something to be done 'quietly,' 'under the cover of darkness,' and 'in a locked dumpster' because discarded materials have occasionally been 'returned by dumpster rats who cannot bear to see books thrown away'.» lab rat = rata de laboratorio.
Example: It must be another hairbrained idea made by lab rats with no real world experience.» muskrat = almizclero, rata almizclera, rata almizclada.
Example: Popular quarry of fur trappers are beaver, coon, mink, ermine, marten and muskrat.» packrat = colector compulsivo, persona que nunca se deshace de nada.
Example: In broad terms, lack of weeding was associated with fear, inertia, and a 'packrat mentality,' causing one librarian to remark that it is 'time to weed librarians who don't want to weed'.» rat control = desratización.
Example: The government should be regulating everything from birth control to rat control.» rat hole = nido de ratas.
Example: If I were to ever find myself reduced to having to live in such a rat hole, there really would be nothing left but suicide.» rat-infested = infestado de ratas, plagado de ratas, lleno de ratas.
Example: She was forced to deliver her own babies in a rat-infested dungeon with nothing but a dog-eared book on pregnancy to help her.» rat poison = matarratas.
Example: Some types of rat poison are made with anticoagulants that inhibit blood coagulation.» rat race, the = vorágine de la vida moderna, la.
Example: The rat race grips the majority of Americans - it's an endless cycle of work, debt, and consumption with very little time for doing what we love to do = La mayoría de los americanos estamos atrapados en la vorágine de la vida moderna, en el círculo interminable del trabajo, la deuda y el consumo y con muy poco tiempo para hacer lo que realmente nos entusiasma .» rat-ridden = infestado de ratas, plagado de ratas, lleno de ratas.
Example: I warn you, the place is rat-ridden, ghost-ridden, and damp into the bargain!.» rat trap = trampa para ratas.
Example: Kittens are curious creatures, so you'll need to keep yours away from rat traps.» rat trap = nido de ratas.
Example: Amanda's landlord ought to be sued for allowing people to live in such a rat trap.» smell + a rat = oler algo sospechoso, oler a gato encerrado, haber gato encerrado, tener la mosca destrás de la oreja, estar con la mosca detrás de la oreja, mosquearse.
Example: 'Something doesn't seem right, and I don't know exactly what it is, but I kind of smell a rat,' Cooper said = "Algo parece que no está bien, y no sé exactamente qué es, pero yo como que tengo la mosca detrás de la oreja", dijo Cooper.rat2
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» rat + Nombre + out = delatar, denunciar, chivarse de, dar un soplo, dar un chivatazo.
Example: What is shocking is that he rats her out to the police and then thinks it is OK to get into the car with her.» rat on = acusar a, delatar a, chivarse de, denunciar a, dar un soplo de, dar un chivatazo de.
Example: She knew the consequences for ratting on her own people.» rat on + a deal = rajarse, echarse atrás, retractarse.
Example: Two years later, when Hitler ratted on the deal and invaded the Soviet Union, the Communists changed their minds again.