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单词 dead men's shoes
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dead men's shoes

Property or a position coveted by a prospective successor but available only on a person’s death: he had fallen into an estate by a series of dead men’s shoes...
  • The method for promotion is very much dead men's shoes.
  • But I'm kind of trapped by a glass ceiling and the only way up is to fill dead men's shoes.
  • Promotion by seniority, waiting for dead men's shoes, is a sad blow to efficiency, for it stifles initiative and offers no incentive.
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