Christine Lakin

I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body.

American Actress

Marsha P. Johnson

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!

American Celebrity

Prosenjit Chatterjee

I do not want to be a part of Hindi cinema's rat race. But yes, if I get offers and characters which I feel would suit me as well as make some difference to me, I will do a Hindi film.

Indian Actor

Rush Limbaugh

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

American Entertainer

Astro

Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.

Musician

Quincy Jones

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

American Musician

Robert De Niro

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Actor

Mike Dirnt

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

Jasmin Bhasin

Just like my onscreen character Twinkle, I'm extremely scared of rats.

Indian Actress

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

American Model

The word 'rat' can suggest dirtiness or disease, especially in urban settings.

Negative Connotations

'Rat' is often used to describe animals that are sneaky or thieving.

Associated Behaviors

'Rat race' is a metaphor for the competitive struggle of daily life.

Common Metaphor

Calling someone a 'rat' is very offensive and suggests betrayal.

Negative Label

In crime movies, 'rat' is used for someone who betrays a group to the authorities.

Criminal Context

'Rat' as an insult shouldn't be used in formal settings, it's very informal.

Avoid in Formality

'To rat on someone' is informal and often used among friends or peers.

Informal Slang

'Rat' often implies the act of snitching, which is frowned upon in many cultures.

Snitch Connotations

Accusing a friend of 'ratting' can suggest a violation of trust.

Friendship Context

 So it's not at all unusual, for example, to hear people to say humans are the only animals that laugh. Nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh. In fact, you find laughter throughout the mammals. It's been well-described and well-observed in primates, but you also see it in rats, and wherever you find it --

Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...

 that the amount of nurturing a mother rat provides its newborn baby plays a part in determining how that baby responds to stress later in life. The pups of nurturing moms turned out less sensitive to stress because their brains developed more cortisol receptors, which stick to cortisol and dampen the stress response.

How stress affects your...

 when mother rats weren't attentive enough to their pups, genes in the babies that helped them manage stress were methylated and turned off. And it might not stop with that generation. Most epigenetic marks are erased when egg and sperm cells are formed.

What is epigenetics? -...

 The researchers hypothesized that the pregnant ewes had snacked on poisonous birth defect-causing plants. They collected the local flora and fed samples to lab rats, but struggled to replicate the effect. So they decided to directly observe the sheep

The strange case of the...

 The rat rose with the sun to get an early start, but on the way to the river, he met the horse, the tiger, and the ox. Because the rat was small and couldn't swim very well, he asked the bigger animals for help. While the tiger and horse refused,

The myth behind the...

 that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle. When a rat gets infected by eating cat feces, the parasite changes chemical levels in the rat's brain, making it less cautious around the hungry felines, maybe even attracted to them.

How parasites change...

 the genetic profiles examining social and exploratory behavior plus their reactions to various unfamiliar situations provides deep clues into the behavioral tendencies of these potential soldier rats just as the army test

Finding landmines using...

 When it comes to size, it's often, but not always, the case that larger species have a longer lifespan than smaller ones. For instance, an elephant or whale will live much longer than a mouse, rat, or vole,

Why do animals have such...

 narrow maze like toilet pipes is this even possible the underwater passage leaves no room for error add a turn the rat finds a pocket of air just enough to help it

See How Easily a Rat Can...

 Even the baby is determined to help. But his mother has spotted something. This yellow rat snake isn't after monkeys.

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