Rut
Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
To cover in copulation.
A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
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Rut Quotations
Those movies sure got me into a rut.
Elvis Presley
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
Martin Scorsese
If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
Levon Helm
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
Vance Havner
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold Bennett
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.
Eva Mendes
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
Laurie Anderson
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
Josh Lucas
You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.
Ruben Blades
You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.
Rick Danko
At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
Val Guest
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
Christine Lavin
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
Ruth Gordon
The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
Peter Cetera
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Rut Translations
rut in German is Wagenspur
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