On the ground floor of the building a factory makes rat traps.

I'm not sure I ought to stay in this rat trap, myself.

It did look like the jaws of a rat trap.

"You'd think there was something valuable in this rat trap."

"Does that give us a way through to a safe street, or are we still in the midst of this rat trap?"

The smell was worse than having a dead rat trapped in the walls.

"We've got a rat trapped in the court across the way and he might start shooting.

Until I found a way to get out of this stainless steel rat trap.

The other was a little man, ginger-haired, with a hard rat trap of a face.

May I leave the acquisition of a few rat traps to you?"

"How did you know I was aboard this floating rat trap?"

There are three of them: Swedish citizens who have ended up in a rat trap.

Like a rat trapped in a corner by dogs.

He uses a rat trapped in a heated container to scrape him.

Nor did they risk their lives seeking out slave girls who could have been the bait in a rat trap.

The prison staff set out fresh rat traps.

There are an estimated 12-19 cats in the colony, referred to as "living rat traps".

He felt like a rat trapped in a maze, with dead ends in every direction.

"The cheese in the rat trap of life," sighed Palma.

Croaker felt sorry for her pent up in this rat trap of a job.

A rat trap is a trap designed to catch rats.

"Or the owner of this damned rat trap, either!"

The whole place was a rat trap.

That had been evident when Hermine got caught by the rat trap in the solar station.

Variations include the use of multiple traps, or very big rat traps, for added power.