| 单词 | room at the top |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroom at the top P9. room at the top: opportunity to join an elite, the top ranks of a profession, etc. ΚΠ 1866 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 27 Feb. 3/4 When Daniel Webster was a young man about commencing the study of law, he was advised not to enter the legal profession, for it was already crowded. His reply was,—‘There is room enough at the top’. a1871 A. Cary in Poet. Wks. Alice & Phoebe Cary (1882) 274 Believe me there 's truth in the saying: ‘There always is room at the top’. 1900 W. James Let. 2 Apr. (1920) II. 121 Verily there is room at the top. S—— seems to be the only Britisher worth thinking of. 1914 A. Bennett Price of Love vii. 143 The Imperial had set out to be the most gorgeous cinema in the Five Towns; and it simply was. Its advertisements read: ‘There is always room at the top.’ 1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey iii. 89 You have to be pretty smart with all the competition there is nowadays... There's always room at the top. 1947 ‘G. Orwell’ Eng. People 22 The masses..know it is not true that ‘there's plenty of room at the top’. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top xxviii. 230 You're the sort of young man we want. There's always room at the top. 1980 M. Drabble Middle Ground 140 There's room at the top, maybe, but only for the clever ones. < as lemmas |
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