a rat race

an unpleasant way in which people compete against each other at work in order to succeed I'd love to get out of the rat race and buy a house in some remote part of the countryside.

See smell a rat

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Glaw	-	Welsh
Eerikki	E:-reek-kee	Finnish
Yotam	-	Biblical Hebrew
Hajnal	HAWY-nawl	Hungarian
Zinat	-	Arabic, Persian
Quintus	KWIN-tuws (Ancient Roman), KWIN-təs (English)	Ancient Roman