I am sure many of us have made offhand remarks about tenants before, even you if i recollect 
ā¦and the name I was using would not have caused a conservative old maid palpitationsā¦it isnāt even a swear word!!
At M&Hās just now
Because most are his friends. Donāt mean he has to do any thing. Not sure of the dynamics, but they all seem to be friends.
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Maybe this is club wear over there 
Who is this at Indiraās door? Just take-away
I smell a rat is like saying you donāt think something is quite right or seems suspicious, itās not meant to be an insult. Its a very common saying, at least in all English speaking countures.
What the hell is going on? Some people seem to want to be offended at the slightest remark that they donāt like all of a sudden.
Seems like the woke culture has broken out all of a sudden on the forum and Jabs is going around like Miss Goody two shoes
Iām hoping that he is just unfamiliar with sayings that we hear all the time, and perhaps rather than threaten to remove something, find out what it means first.
I really did not know that saying. āRatā in German is considered a serious insult because it was mainly the Nazis using it. Just to put it into context.
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And this is not nonsense piling up posts
Fair enough, which is why I suggested to check itās meaning, because it obviously means something completely different in the example used above.
Thanks for telling me. Now I am a bit wiser about English sayings 
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No problem, there is so much we can all learn from each other.
In the UK if we see a guy chasing a girl and scores with her we would also say he was like a rat up a drainpipe. ieā¦sex mad
Oh that is a funny sayingā¦ We say āSpitz wie Nachbars Lumpiā which means as horny as the neighbors dog named āLumpiā 
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Thereās another one, āI donāt give a rats arseā (I donāt care) 
We have many sayings, which to a foreigner may seem rude or insulting, but in reality to us would just be taking the piss and no one would get offended by them.