pack rat
小老鼠,小白鼠,鼠辈,小白脸
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- : Also called trade rat, wood rat . a large, bushy-tailed rodent, Neotoma cinerea, of North America, noted for carrying off small articles to store in its nest.
- : Informal. a person who saves things that are not needed or used but that may have personal or other value.
- : Informal. an old prospector or guide.
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Luckily for history’s sake, Glenn was something of a pack rat, saving everything from elementary school drawings to class papers to his post-Mercury notes about space travel — all of it housed at the John Glenn Archives at Ohio State.
“Change can be exciting,” Cuomo says to Richards as he helps her pack up her office.
While some stray from the fold, most stay with the same pack their entire lives.
And lo, Snowballs—underpants which can hold a flexible gel pack that you store in the freezer—was born.
Plus the notion of the poor little guy surrounded by a rag-tag pack of true believers is an American favorite.
New York City boasts the highest cost for cigarettes in the nation, with a pack ranging anywhere from $12 and up.
Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.
He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."
The party was made up of six men on horseback, two tame buffaloes, and a pack of immense dogs used to hunting.
Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.
There was no fight in his men; they ran like a pack of frightened coyotes at the first crack of a gun.