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What's the meaning of "stuck in a rut" idiom? Please give me some examples!

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Idiom Conjugations:

 
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Gerund Form of the Idiom:

Getting stuck in a rut can happen very easily.
Becoming stuck in a rut can happen very easily.
Falling into in a rut can happen very easily.
 
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Idiom Usage:

Don't get stuck in a rut!  Break the routine of your life!
Stuck in a creative rut?  Think outside the box!
Stuck in a work rut?  Change your job!
Stuck in a relationship rut?  Go for a hot air balloon ride!
 
Literally
A vehicle can become stuck in a rut or ruts.

In a rut - in a song ...
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Idiom Scenario 2:


We launched the new advertising campaign six months ago.  For the first three months, sales improved significantly.  Then, sales stagnated.  Sales have not moved for the last three months, even with the continuing campaign. 
Sales are stuck in a rut!

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Idiom Scenario 1:


Same job for twenty years!  Same routine every day.  Wake up at 7 a.m., leave the house at 8:15, get to work by 9 a.m.  Have a cup of coffee.  Do the same boring job until 5 p.m. and then go home and have supper and watch TV until bed. Day after day after day.
I am stuck in a rut!


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Idiom Definition:


"to be stuck in a rut"
to be in a boring, repetitive, unchanging habit pattern of life with little volition to change
 
Synonyms: abiding, accepted, accustomed, changeless, consistent, constant, conventional, established, even, everyday, familiar, firm, habitual, hidebound, immutable, lasting, normal, ordinary, orthodox, perpetual, regular, rigid, routine, same, stable, standard, static, stasis, traditional, uniform, unvarying
 




 


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