A fat long-tailed rat, displaying no sense of hurry, ambles across her path and disappears among the rubbish.

"On which journey he is welcome as one of his long-tailed rats."

Welcome as long-tailed rat but not going to worry about it, thank you.

It was formerly considered a subspecies of Edwards's long-tailed giant rat, and it has one synonym: Leopoldamys setiger.

But these are not your ordinary beady-eyed, long-tailed ugly brown rats found in dark alleys and dumps.

He looked too much like a long-tailed rat, as it was.

I might have told her what my mother had told me when I was about her age: Stay away from married men; they're long-tailed rats.

The long-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys sabanus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

Is it preferable to be a rat or a mouse - a long-tailed, snaggle-toothed, terror-inspiring rat or a little grey domestic pest?

The lesser hamster-rat or long-tailed pouched rat (Beamys hindei) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family.