race

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  • (one's) race is run
  • a one-horse race
  • a race against time
  • a race against time/the clock
  • a two-horse race
  • a/the race to the bottom
  • be in the race
  • be off to the races
  • boat race
  • caucus race
  • get (someone's) pulse racing
  • get pulses racing
  • no horse in this race
  • not at the races
  • off to the races
  • one-horse race
  • pee like a racehorse
  • piss like a racehorse
  • play the race card
  • race against
  • race against (someone or something)
  • race against the clock
  • race against time
  • race around
  • race card
  • race for
  • race for (something)
  • race for pinks
  • race into
  • race into (someone or something)
  • race out of the traps
  • race through
  • race through (something)
  • race to
  • race to (someone or something)
  • race to some place
  • race to the bottom
  • race up to
  • race up to (someone or something)
  • race with
  • race with (someone or something)
  • rat race
  • rat race, a
  • run the good race
  • set (someone's) pulse racing
  • set pulses racing
  • slow and steady wins the race
  • slow but sure
  • the race card
  • the rat race
  • tight race
  • You don't change horses in the middle of the race.
  • You don't change horses mid-race.
References in classic literature
He was coming to life again--he had survived the race. The last shout of applause which hailed Fleetwood's victory rang out as they lifted him from the ground to carry him to the pavilion.
Relieved of the oppression which had kept him silent while the race was in progress, Sir Patrick put a question to the surgeon as they drove home, which had been in his mind from the moment when Geoffrey had lost the day.
"He is the Statesman who saved his country," answered the Race Horse.
The race that formed the character of the Haytiens was a worn-out, effeminate one; and, of course, the subject race will be centuries in rising to anything.
A nation has a right to argue, remonstrate, implore, and present the cause of its race,--which an individual has not.
For a coloured man to work it out in the South, where, in its constructive period, he was necessarily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every step to the strained race relations--that is so very different and more difficult a thing that the man who did it put the country under lasting obligations to him.
Without the great secret this maleless race must even-tually become extinct.
Highcamp deplored the absence of her daughter from the races, and tried to convey to her what she had missed by going to the "Dante reading" instead of joining them.
Trent, who had been looking forward to the next few minutes with all the eagerness of a man who, for the first time in his life, runs the favourite in a great race, smiled as he realised how very content he was to stay where nothing could be seen until the final struggle was over.
These ancient Martians had been a highly cultivated and literary race, but during the vicissitudes of those trying centuries of readjustment to new conditions, not only did their advancement and production cease entirely, but practically all their archives, records, and literature were lost.
The excitement of the approaching race gained upon him as he drove further and further into the atmosphere of the races, overtaking carriages driving up from the summer villas or out of Petersburg.
"Once, when I was young," said Jim, "I was a race horse, and defeated all who dared run against me.
When we attempt to estimate the amount of structural difference between the domestic races of the same species, we are soon involved in doubt, from not knowing whether they have descended from one or several parent-species.
The dominant race of Pellucidar, David, have not yet learned that men converse among themselves, or reason.
And I do not pretend to any interest in the enumeration of the great races of that year.