Anything really serious required using the old treadmill-powered raft to get the patient downlake.

Ye're in the old treadmill o' God-theboth o' ye!

They would rather kill themselves in the old treadmill than stop and try to kill time.

Then the same old treadmill.

He was tired to death of the old routine, weary beyond expression of the beaten track, of the sameness of the old treadmill of thought.