lab rat | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Astudentoremployeewho spends a great deal of time working in alaboratory.2013April 8, Denise Grady, “Profiles in Science: Charting Her Own Course”, inNew York Times, retrieved20 April 2015:As a graduate student, she loved being a “lab rat,” Dr. Blackburn said, adding, “I was just really focused on the science, the science, the science.”; (idiomatic)A person or group used as the subject of anexperimentor test, especiallyunwillinglyorunwittingly.2010,BioWare, quoting Toombs,Mass Effect 2(Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→OCLC, PC, scene: What the hell?:Tests were done on me that you can't even imagine. For years.Cerberusdid them. They tortured me. They used me as a damnlab rat. And now you're teaming up with them like they're any other merc band?2012May 1, Joanna Kakissis, “Greece's Former Prime Minister Assesses the State of His Nation”, inTime, retrieved20 April 2015:Looking back at the unprecedented meddling of European powers in his country's politics amid the Euro crisis — a series of events that led to his fall as well as Greece becoming the first country in the zone to be forced to accept painful austerities in exchange for bailout loans — Papandreou told TIME, "I think it couldn't have been avoided. We were alab rat, an experiment."2012September 13, “TV Review: ‘Beauty and the Beast’”, inWashington Post, retrieved20 April 2015:This time, Vincent . . . became an unwittinglab ratfor a vaccine that turned soldiers into hyperaggressive killing machines.

Examples:

EN: I don't know when he started drinking at cabarets, but he used to be a lab rat.
ES: No sé cuando empezó a frecuentar los clubs, pero solía ser una rata de laboratorio
EN: Well, don't worry, Tommy. You're still number-1 lab rat.
ES: No te preocupes, Tommy, aún eres la rata de laboratorio Número 1.
EN: There's no lab rat I saw.
ES: No vi ninguna rata de laboratorio.
EN: She's holding me against my will. I'm being used as a lab rat.
ES: Me retiene contra mi voluntad, me está usando como rata de laboratorio.
EN: A goddamn lab rat!
ES: ¡Una maldita rata de laboratorio!
EN: So a new a lab rat?
ES: ¿Una nueva rata de laboratorio?
EN: I guess I should have felt honored being your favorite lab rat, but I didn't.
ES: Imagino que debí sentirme honrada al ser su rata de laboratorio favorita. Pero no es así.
EN: It's a date. - She looked at him like he was a lab rat.
ES: - Ella lo miró como si fuera una rata de laboratorio.
EN: - I'm not some kind of lab rat.
ES: - No soy un ratón de laboratorio.
EN: - You mean a human lab rat.
ES: - Quiere decir una cobaya humana.
EN: I'm nobody's lab rat, do you understand?
ES: No seré la cobaya de nadie. ¿Lo entiendes?
EN: We've got a 60-year-old convict and a lab rat.
ES: No. Tenemos un convicto de 60 años y una rata de laboratorio.
EN: I would say your days of being a lab rat are pretty much over.
ES: Diría que tus días como rata de laboratorio casi han terminado.
EN: Seven years of playing lab rat for him was quite enough.
ES: Siete años de cobayo para él fueron suficientes.
EN: I'm gonna be a fuckin' lab rat.
ES: Voy a ser una rata de laboratorio.

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