rat race

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rat race
race to the top, race to be the best


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rat race
Noun
1. an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation
(hypernym) routine, modus operandi



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rat race
rushing around, confusing way of living that does not seem to have a purpose He is tired of living in the rat race every day and plans to quit his job soon and do something else.

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rat race
Synonyms and related words:
Charybdis, absurdity, aimlessness, bootlessness, busyness, dirty work, dizzy round, donkeywork, drudgery, eddy, employment, emptiness, fag, fatigue, fatuity, fecklessness, fruitlessness, futility, grind, gurge, gyre, handiwork, handwork, hollowness, impotence, inanity, industry, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, labor, lick, lick of work, maelstrom, manual labor, meaninglessness, moil, nugacity, otiosity, pirouette, plenty to do, pointlessness, press of business, profitlessness, purposelessness, reel, round, scut work, slavery, spadework, spin, stroke, stroke of work, surge, sweat, swirl, task, the absurd, the rat race, tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, triviality, turn, twirl, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, valuelessness, vanity, vicious circle, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, work, worthlessness
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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rat-race
rat-race /'ræ'treis/
danh từ cuộc ganh đua quyết liệt công việc đầu tắt mặt tối mà không đi đến đâu
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