bottom rung

And you only win if you're not in the bottom rung.

They were on the bottom rung of the social ladder.

Slowly he let himself down to the bottom rung of wire.

Instead, these workers often behave as if they exist on the bottom rung.

But there's not much margin for error at the bottom rung.

"I'll be able to reach the bottom rung of the ladder."

It's hard to make ends meet in a European capital on the bottom rung of any industry.

The next morning they did move me down a notch but, to my relief, not to the bottom rung.

The cities and counties would do it too - except they are on the bottom rung.

Apparently inmates were on the bottom rung, just like Mexicans.

"Without this deal, it would have been on the bottom rungs of hell.

They will shove the current population off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.

Jones's goal was to help build the bottom rungs of the ladder.

He had reached the bottom rung with a high leap, and hauled himself to the floor above.

Yet the bottom rungs of that ladder have largely disappeared since then.

New work opportunities got women off the bottom rung of the career ladder in state government and the armed services.

Still others spend whole and often very happy careers on the bottom rung of the ladder.

He began at the bottom rung of the Veterans Administration in 1961.

Very much the bottom rung of the ladder of life.

She sat down on the bottom rung of the aircraft ladder and waited for her father.

To check stability, bounce a few times on the bottom rung before climbing.

Editorial had obviously started him at the bottom rung.

Second, family breakdown has devastated economic progress for those on the bottom rungs.

"I do that," he said, setting his foot on the bottom rung of the first ladder.

From the bottom rung he let notebook and pencil whisk away on the current.