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
Vakha	-	Chechen
HjØRdis	-	Danish, Norwegian
Corrie	KAWR-ee (English), KAWRH-ee (Dutch)	English, Dutch
Jerusha	jə-ROO-shə (English)	Biblical
Iseult	i-SOOLT (English), i-ZOOLT (English), EE-səlt (English)	Arthurian Romance
Darden	DAHR-dən	English (Rare)