kick down the ladder
Example Sentences
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American economic history betrays the pioneer helping to kick down the ladder which he himself had raised toward equal opportunity for all.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby
The Fathers made me a Catholic, and I am not going to kick down the ladder by which I ascended into the Church.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
Let us not kick down the ladder by which we mounted, nor refuse to acknowledge what our fathers felt in their hour of trial.
From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Friends, let us as American citizens never kick down the ladder by which we climbed up.
From Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come by Roger W. Babson
Unless the Medici could manage to kick down the ladder whereby they had risen, they ran the risk of losing all.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
