rat

rat

Petit animal à longue queue qui ressemble à une grosse souris.

En anglais simple : A small animal with a long tail that looks like a large mouse.

• A rat ran across the floor.
• We keep two rats as pets.
• Did you see the rat behind the bins?

Expressions courantes : pet rat, rat trap, a rat

traître

Personne qui trahit ta confiance ou aide tes ennemis.

En anglais simple : A person who breaks your trust or helps your enemies.

• You told everyone my secret, you rat!
• She called him a rat for betraying his friends.
• Nobody trusted the rat who had sold them out.

Synonymes : traitor, snake

Expressions courantes : a dirty rat, that rat

habitué

Personne qui passe beaucoup de temps dans un lieu précis.

En anglais simple : Someone who spends much of their time in a particular place.

• My brother is a gym rat.
• The mall rats gathered outside the food court.
• She became a library rat during her college years.

Synonymes : regular

Expressions courantes : mall rat, gym rat

dénoncer, balancer

Révéler à la police ou à une autre autorité une faute commise par quelqu’un.

En anglais simple : To tell the police or another authority about something wrong that someone has done.

• Please do not rat on me.
• He ratted out the gang to the police.
• Who ratted on us to the teacher?

Comment l'utiliser : rat on someone (He refused to rat on his brother.); rat someone out (Someone ratted her out to the police.)

Synonymes : inform on, tell on, betray

Expressions courantes : rat on someone, rat someone out

rayer, entailler

Faire une marque sur une surface en la griffant ou en l’entaillant.

En anglais simple : To cut or scratch a mark into a surface.

• He used a blade to rat the wood.
• She ratted a line into the soft surface.
• The knife had ratted a deep mark across the board.

Synonymes : scratch, score

Expressions courantes : rat a line, rat the surface