Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

put the bottom rail on top

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English

Syllables: put the bot-tom rail on -top
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To reverse a hierarchy.

Example Sentences

"“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.”"

Inflected Forms

puts the bottom rail on top (present, singular) putting the bottom rail on top (participle, present)

Questions

What does put the bottom rail on top mean?: To reverse a hierarchy.

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