Definitions for rat race
rat race

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1. rat racenoun

   an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation

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1. rat racenoun

   An activity or situation which is congested with participants and which is hectic or tedious, especially in the context of a busy, modern urban lifestyle.

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1. Rat Race

   Rat Race is a single by British rock band Enter Shikari. The song was first played on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio One show on the evening of 31 October 2013. The single was released with a remix of the song Radiate by Enter Shikari's alter ego Shikari Sound System. The band also released an EP, which compiled the two previous singles "The Paddington Frisk" and "Radiate". The "Rat Race" single peaked at #77 on the UK Singles Chart on 16 November 2013.

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1. rat race

   A rat race is a term used to describe a frustrating, hard-to-win, and competitive pursuit. It generally refers to a lifestyle characterized by working long hours on repetitive tasks in pursuit of career advancement, wealth, or personal success, which is often associated with stress and lack of fulfillment.

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1. Rat race

   A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. It conjures up the image of the futile efforts of a lab rat trying to escape while running around a maze or in a wheel.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rat race in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rat race in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of rat race in a Sentence

1. Darryl Clinton:

   I don't really want to be in the whole rat race thing, and I can escape that here.

2. Paul Gruchow:

   It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

3. Todd Fisher:

   He had just moved in, and he was showing us around the house, i had just gotten to town and, being a teenager, he assumed that Carrie Fisher and I were smoking a little pot … So he puts his arm around me and he goes, ‘ Hey, man. ’ Puts a couple joints in my pocket, and he goes, ‘ Do n’t go to strangers. ’ I ’d only known him from the movies. I was a little kid when he made the movie ‘ The Rat Race ’ with my mother, and nobody was even thinking in these terms … At that moment, my mother did n’t know Carrie Fisher and I were smoking pot at all. He was even kind of hiding it from her. So it was a little bit of a revelation.

4. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   when I look at you here is what I see:- an open ended tube from mouth to anus. this is called the -human race- who, without love, is a total disgrace, each one trying to find his place in this eternal rat race.I am ras cardo!

5. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rat race
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rat_Race
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Race
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5. ^ Wikidata
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