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top of the heap

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the top of the heap
the highest rank within a group. How does Stephen plan to keep the company at the top of the heap?
Usage notes: often used in the form at the top of the heap, as in the example
Opposite of: the bottom of the heap
See also: heap, top

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Toward the top of the heap I had to handle the coal a second time, tossing it up with a shovel.
I thought he even looked as if he were thinking, with complacent vanity, that his own skull would look well on top of the heap and his own ribs add a charm to the frescoes which possibly they lacked at present.
He saw them under the table on top of the heap of returned manuscripts for which he had no stamps, and he saw their titles, just as he had typed them - "The High Priests of Mystery," and "The Cradle of Beauty.
 
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