His mind raced like that of a cornered rat looking for escape.

But he was a cornered rat who could think.

Then he turns on us like a cornered rat.

Locke watched him with the look of a cornered rat in his eyes.

He can't be just waiting in there like a cornered rat.

She gave off the same dangerous quality as a cornered rat, and looked like someone you'd be really stupid to turn your back on.

They'll fight like cornered rats, once they realize surrender's not being offered.

"Any man who wants to die is more dangerous than a cornered rat."

She looked, he thought, like a miserable little cornered rat.

He was in deadly earnest, fighting for his life like a cornered rat.