In use: Aunt Siu-yee wouldn’t let us back in the flat after we were caught in the storm because we looked like a pair of drowned rats. The rat race Meaning: an unpleasant, overly competitive way ...

Samir, a superintendent, told us the situation in some of his apartment buildings was getting so out of hand that he had to drown rats himself, "I drowned them in water and killed them.

Samir, a superintendent, told us the situation in some of his apartment buildings was getting so out of hand that he had to drown rats himself, "I drowned them in water and killed them.