| Subject | English | Russian |
| slang | be stuck in a rut | застрять в привычной колее (Vishera) |
| gen. | be stuck in a rut | зайти в тупик (But their set lists were stuck in a rut; only three of the 12 songs they played each night were from 1965, and there was a surprisingly high number of cover songs in the set (three) Lily Snape) |
| idiom. | get stuck in a rut | погрязнуть в рутине (Supernova) |
| amer. | get stuck in a rut | войти в привычную колею (Maggie) |
| slang | stuck in a rut | застрять в тупике (Lu4ik) |
| slang | stuck in a rut | застрять в рутине (Lu4ik) |
| slang | stuck in a rut | застрять в колее (Lu4ik) |