| 单词 | it's lonely at the top |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit's lonely (also tough, etc.) at the top q. it's lonely (also tough, etc.) at the top and variants: used to emphasize the isolation and pressure felt by people in positions of power, responsibility, or pre-eminence.In early use perhaps not a fixed phrase: cf. at the top at Phrases 6g. ΚΠ 1924 Woman's Home Compan. Mar. 85/1 My employers say I can go right to the top. But..won't it be lonely ‘at the top’, maybe, when I'm say about forty? 1935 R. Tucker in N.Y. Times Mag. 3 Feb. 9 The ‘V. P.’ wishes that he could take the floor again for a session of political fisticuffs... Mr. Garner has found that it is lonely at the top. 1995 I. Banks Whit (1996) xvii. 287 You all have him to turn to but he only has God. You know; tough at the top, and all that. Buck stops with him, sort of thing. 2020 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 June (Business section) 26 There's the saying that it's lonely at the top—you're the boss, you've got the responsibility for everyone. < as lemmas |
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