Commonly-Used Idioms, Sayings and phrasal verbs - Saigontre

ap with (someone)
- to talk/chat with someone
I passed the morning rapping with my friend at the park.
raring/rarin' to go
- to be extremely eager to do something
Everybody was rarin' to go after the speech by our company president.
rat on (someone)
- to betray someone by telling someone else about illegal or wrong activities
The young boy ratted on his friend who broke the store window.
rat out on (someone)
- to desert or betray someone, to leave someone at a critical time
The boy's friend ratted out on him and refused to support him in his fight with the
neighborhood bully.
rat race
- an endless hurried existence, a fierce struggle for success
The man sometimes finds it too much of a rat race to live and work in a big city.
rate with (someone)
- to be in someone's favor
I do not think that I rate with some of the students at my school.
rattle (something) off
- to recite something quickly and accurately
The little boy was able to rattle off most of the countries in the world.
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