Rats
To see rats in your dream, signifies feelings of doubts, guilt and/or envy. You are having unworthy thoughts that you are keeping to yourself but are eating you up inside.
Alternatively, it denotes repulsion. The dream may also be a pun on someone who is a rat.
To see a black rat, represents deceit and covert activities.
To see a white rat in your dream, denotes that in your time of distress, you will receive assistance from an unexpected source.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- 2: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn: scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat]
- 3: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
- 4: one who reveals confidential information in return for money [syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber]
- 5: a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
- v. 1: desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- 2: employ scabs or strike breakers in
- 3: take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: fink, scab, rat, blackleg]
- 4: give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- 5: catch rats, especially with dogs
- 6: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag]