(stuck) in a rut
Seemingly trapped or stuck in a mundane, non-changing pattern of life, work, or personal behavior. I had so many ambitions when I first graduated from college, but now I feel like I'm in a rut. We're stuck in a rut—let's move abroad for the summer and shake things up! Are you stuck in a rut? Then take our five-day motivational course to find out how you can make the most of your life!
be (stuck) in a rut
To become seemingly trapped or stuck in a mundane, non-changing pattern of life, work, or personal behavior. I had so many ambitions when I first graduated from college, but now I feel like I'm in a rut. We're stuck in a rut—let's move abroad for the summer and shake things up! Are you stuck in a rut? Then take our five-day motivational course to find out how you can make the most of your life!
get in(to) a rut
To become seemingly trapped or stuck in a mundane, non-changing pattern of life, work, or personal behavior. I had so many ambitions when I first graduated from college, but now I feel like I've gotten into a rut. We're getting in a rut—let's move abroad for the summer and shake things up! Have you gotten into a rut? Then take our five-day motivational course to find out how you can make the most of your life!
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*in a rut
Fig. in a type of boring habitual behavior. (As when the wheels of a buggy travel in the ruts worn into the ground by other buggies making it easiest to go exactly the way all the other buggies have gone before. *Typically: be ~; get ~.) My life has gotten into a rut. I try not to get into a rut.
(stuck) in a rut
Fig. kept in an established way of living or working that never changes. David felt like he was stuck in a rut, so he went back to school. Anne was tired of being in a rut, so she moved to Los Angeles.
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in a rut
In a settled or established habit or course of action, especially a boring one. For example, We go to the seashore every summer-we're in a rut, or After ten years at the same job she says she's in a rut. This expression alludes to having a wheel stuck in a groove in the road. [Early 1800s]
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in a rut
following a fixed (especially tedious or dreary) pattern of behaviour that is difficult to change. The rut in this expression is the deep groove worn by a wheel travelling many times along the same track.
1995 Nick Hornby High Fidelity I should have spotted that we were in a rut, that I had allowed things to fester to such an extent that she was on the lookout for someone else.
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in a ˈrut
in a fixed, rather boring way of doing things: I suddenly realized one day that I’d been in a rut for years: same job, same flat, same friends, ...A rut is a deep track that a wheel makes in soft ground and which causes wheels to get stuck.
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