They're about as cooperative as a cave full of rabid rats.

But - when driven into a corner - they can fight like rabid rats.

They fought like a pack of rabid rats, and we treated them accordingly.

They loomed head and shoulders above the crowd, monstrous creatures, man-shaped but with the heads of immense rabid rats.

He backed up, snarling, face so viciously transformed that for a moment Char thought she was facing a rabid rat rather than a person.

He's as mad as a rabid rat.

Tymora, why couldn't it have been something cleaner or nicer, like giant rabid rats?

Tarabon was a pit writhing with poisonous vipers and rabid rats, but . . . "How quickly could you get a courier to Tanchico?"

I've known rabid rats with bleeding hemorrhoids that were friendlier than your average Mistworlder.