Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.
Rat
A good rat will not injure the grain near its own hole.Chinese.
A rat makes a hole, a snake inhabits it.Tamil.
A rat may flood a province.Sydney Smith, speaking of Holland.
An old rat easily finds a hole.Dutch.
An old rat won’t go into a trap.Dutch.
Do you not smell a rat?Ben Jonson.
Many a rat devours the lion.German.
Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.
Rats do not play tricks with kittens.Spanish.
Rats desert a sinking ship.
The rat betrayed by his own trap perishes.Latin.
The rat that has but one hole is soon caught.Spanish, Dutch.
The very rats had instinctively quit it (the ship).Shakespeare.