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.