Answer: rat race
The answer rat race has 13 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Daily grind (informal)
- Relentless contest to get ahead in life
- Daily grind beginning to relent a little
- Scramble to advance career — as traitor?
- Fluster in the end a little bit and struggle to manage
- Desert marathon perhaps an exhausting grind
- Scramble to get on with artist above suspicion
- Struggle to survive in desert heat?
- Daily struggle to get on
- Sailor backed people in fierce competition