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Meaning of put the bottom rail on top | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To reverse a hierarchy.

idiomatic

Examples

““The nigger Professor” they called me, “with a plan to educate the blacks and to put them above the whites”; “to put the bottom rail on top”; “to subvert Anglo‐Saxon civilization.””

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

put the brakes on put the cabosh on put the cart before the horse put the case put the cat among the pigeons put the change on someone