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rat around

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rat around
Sl. to waste time loafing around; to kick around. (Collegiate.) I didn't do anything but rat around all summer. If kids don't have jobs, they just rat around.
See also: around, rat


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or that a pet rat will bond with a human owner more readily if there is no other rat around to become friends with.
A motorcyclist, Stephane Darmon, who had driven the photographer Romuald Rat around Paris on the night, had been subjected to a prolonged grilling by Richard Keen QC, representing the family of Henri Paul, the chauffeur of the car in which Diana and Fayed died.
She said: ``The only rat around at the time was the black rat which had a homing range of 100 yards.
 
 
 
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