"But they will run against the bottom of the ladder."
Near the bottom of the ladder, when he found no more support for his feet, he clung with his hands; at length, arrived at the last step, he let himself hang by the strength of his wrists, and touched the ground.
The apprentice begins at the
bottom of the ladder and masters the several grades one after the other.
Pudd'nhead was still toiling in obscurity at the
bottom of the ladder, under the blight of that unlucky remark which he had let fall twenty-three years before about the dog.
At the
bottom of the ladder, a door opened, and shut after us immediately with a bang.
It was my first descent into the forecastle, and I shall not soon forget my impression of it, caught as I stood on my feet at the
bottom of the ladder. Built directly in the eyes of the schooner, it was of the shape of a triangle, along the three sides of which stood the bunks, in double-tier, twelve of them.
The
bottom of the ladder rested on a narrow ledge paved with what felt like large round stones, but what he knew from experience to be human skulls.
A pleasant odour of onions and hot ham, mingled with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the
bottom of the ladder; and then the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:
You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the
bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness.
But there I had to begin all over again, and at the very
bottom of the ladder. I slept in the streets.
'Working as a team, everyone has a role to play, from those at the top to those at the
bottom of the ladder,' the NITDA boss said.
It's a very hard industry to work in, especially when you start at the
bottom of the ladder. My advice would be: Don't give up, take all the trainings you can get and educate yourself as much as you can.
As for the team's offensive conductor, Lai Bendong said UE getting three wins was already an achievement since it's been nearly half a decade that the Lady Warriors were consistently at the
bottom of the ladder.
He has added another rung to the
bottom of the ladder.