nounInformal.
'Enjoy Rat Race (2001) Full Movie™. From The Rat Race To The God Race PDF Download Online. Read Dodging Elephants: Leaving the rat race for a bike race - 8000 miles across Africa PDF Online. From The Rat Race To The God Race PDF Full Ebook. Rat Race is one of the greatest comedies of the early 21st Century!!! My family and I have seen it many times; and it’s as funny as the first watch—every time! Rat Race is a modern take on the 1964 movie: “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.” On the other hand, I do not consider Rat Race a “rip-off” of the earlier film.
any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.
RELATED CONTENT
![Race Race](/uploads/1/2/4/9/124952259/206160890.jpg)
RELATED WORDS
Nearby words
rat guard, rat islands, rat kangaroo, rat on, rat pack, rat race, rat snake, rat tamer, rat terrier, rat's nest, rat-a-tat
Origin of rat race
Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
British Dictionary definitions forrat race
noun
a continual routine of hectic competitive activityworking in the City is a real rat race
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Idioms and Phrases withrat race
Fierce competition to maintain or improve one's position in the workplace or social life. For example, You may not realize what a rat race it is to get research grants. This term presumably alludes to the rat's desperate struggle for survival. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
nounInformal.
any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.
RELATED CONTENT
RELATED WORDS
Nearby words
![Download Download](/uploads/1/2/4/9/124952259/952558326.jpg)
rat guard, rat islands, rat kangaroo, rat on, rat pack, rat race, rat snake, rat tamer, rat terrier, rat's nest, rat-a-tat
Origin of rat race
Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
British Dictionary definitions forrat race
noun
a continual routine of hectic competitive activityworking in the City is a real rat race
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Idioms and Phrases withrat race
Fierce competition to maintain or improve one's position in the workplace or social life. For example, You may not realize what a rat race it is to get research grants. This term presumably alludes to the rat's desperate struggle for survival. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.