rat race

For a long time, burnout was seen as the worker’s problem—something they needed to fix with self-care and yoga and sleep if they were going to make it in the rat race of life.

Some young people are also adopting passive forms of resistance to what increasingly seems like an unwinnable rat race, such as the “lying flat” philosophy, essentially opting out and doing the bare minimum.

This strip of sand, home to a smattering of cabins and shacks, is the perfect spot for those easing their way back into the rat race of modern life.

It just felt like a rat race in these classes to memorize these procedures, these formulas.

Once they traded away Harden, Houston withdrew from that rat race.

The Daily Pic: James Nares slows Manhattan's rat race to a snail's pace.

To stay, and attempt to make the cartel rat-race over, sweetly and rationally so that no one would be hurt?

They suffered the ever-present agitation of envy, the constant comparison to one's superiors, the plagued rat race.

But under torment of insomnia the many selves of the mind may abandon the congress of reason and start a rat-race.