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  • verb To rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic.

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Examples

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Of all the new food businesses I've met over the past year, I don't recall a single one that ever talked about an "exit strategy", nor, indeed, one who regretted their decision to quit the rat-race for a real job.

    Saving Fitzbillies: Tim Hayward's life-changing year 2011

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Of course Barber is having a giggle at the expense of rat-race banalities, yet there is something undeniably tragic in the grim futility of the overall atmosphere.

    This week's new exhibitions Robert Clark 2010

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • But I love life-affirming cinematic nuggets that let you remember the camaraderie in the world and forget how dreary and rat-race the day-to-day can be see also Thomas McCarthy's back catalogue.

    My favourite film: Elf 2011

  • So here I am tired of running the rat-race life, hunting for the “american dream”.

    In economic crisis, Obama goes after LimeWire 2009

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

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