"Like a rat up a drainpipe" nghĩa là gì?

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"Like a rat up a drainpipe" = giống như chuột leo ống nước -> cụm từ này nghĩa là rất cơ hội và vội vàng.

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As soon as I was able, I left the village where I grew up and shot off like a rat up a drainpipe to a place where there were pavements alongside all of the roads and where buses came more often than once an hour, even at 3am.

This was a gutsy (dũng cảm) showing from Mallorca who got off to the perfect start scoring after just three minutes. Dani Rodriguez controlled a pass from Aleix Febas on the halfway line, took off like a rat up a drainpipe, leaving Eibar defenders in his wake before slipping the ball past Dimitrovic for the opener.

Following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, media personalities (những lời chỉ trích cá nhân) have been falling over themselves to get a few column inches detailing the time someone said something rude to them. Out of Joint staff member Gina Abolins told the Guardian that she had complained after Stafford-Clark said to her: ‘Back in the day, I’d have been up you like a rat up a drainpipe but now I’m a reformed character. My disability means I’m practically a virgin again.’

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