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- verb To
rat run , that is, to drive onside streets , often at high speeds, to avoidtraffic .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So here I am tired of running the rat-race life, hunting for the âamerican dreamâ.
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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.
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