"rat-race" meaning in English

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      "glosses": [
        "To rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic."
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          "high",
          "high"
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        [
          "speed",
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          "traffic",
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        "(slang, transitive, intransitive) To rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "rat-race"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "rat race"
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          "ref": "1939, Christopher Morley, chapter 26, in Kitty Foyle, page 261",
          "text": "Their own private life gets to be a rat-race.",
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  ],
  "word": "rat-race"
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        "To rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic."
      ],
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          "rat run",
          "rat run"
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        [
          "side streets",
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        ],
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          "high",
          "high"
        ],
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
        ],
        [
          "traffic",
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        "(slang, transitive, intransitive) To rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic."
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "rat-race"
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      "form": "rat-races",
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          "ref": "1939, Christopher Morley, chapter 26, in Kitty Foyle, page 261",
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