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Meanings of rat poison in English

Russian
крысиный яд
Portuguese
raticida
Spanish
raticida
Catalan
raticida

Chemicals selected for killing rodents.

крысиный яд
Usage of rat poison in English
1
The rat poison of sound criticism-tofollow that analogy-isthe remedy here.
Mankind in the Making
2
I was on the point of taking a pennorth of rat poison-
Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce
3
Gad's me, I'd give her to perdition for twopenny-worth o' rat poison!
Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
4
Who'd want to put rat poison in the kitchen? Hallorann laughed derisively.
The Shining
5
Want some rat poison in your scrambled eggs, courtesy of Dale Barbara?
Under the dome: a novel
6
Saunders incapacitated her with rat poison, before penetrating her after her death.
The South African
7
The latter is said to contain detergent, rat poison and ARVs.
The South African
8
They are going to put down Warfarin, better known as a rat poison.
The Irish Times
9
People could also buy traps and rat poison from a supermarket.
Radio NZ
10
Then she went upstairs and swallowed a bottle of rat poison.
The Guardian
11
The look she returned told him she'd rather eat rat poison.
See Jane Score
12
Worst of all, rat poison is not very effective at eliminating large infestations.
The Guardian
13
She became suicidal and took rat poison in an attempt to kill herself.
Radio NZ
14
You might have known it had rat poison on it!
Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier
15
There's only one way, and that's to leave a fund for rat poison .
The Rains Came
16
She got hold of rat poison at the Gufunes dairy.
Silence of the grave