by Tumama004 October 30, 2020
Get the Pull a Ellen mug.A social phenomenon in which individuals or groups who have successfully advanced in status, wealth, or opportunity then act to block others from accessing the same path upward.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
1. After becoming wealthy through public education, the politician now opposes funding for schools, effectively pulling up the ladder behind him.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
by Social Climber September 16, 2025
Get the Pulling Up the Ladder mug.by Nopman August 2, 2018
Get the Pull a Billy mug.When u stand at the edge of a tall place, throw your phone up and jump down to catch it.
(Another form of self-harm or suicide)
(Another form of self-harm or suicide)
by Milly_hmz May 3, 2024
Get the phone pull mug.to fail at the sales, value and quality of a media device (mostly video game related), although the product had a seemingly good initial reaction. Named after the PSP, Sony's unsuccessful console and media device.
Many Nintendo and Microsoft fanboys believe that Sony will pull a PSP with their new home console, the PS3.
by SlevinD December 10, 2008
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Cosmo: “I wanted to hit the juul in mass and thought I might get in trouble. But then I just thought fuck it “I’m Pulling a Ruby”
by Hooches63987 November 4, 2019
Get the “Pulling a Ruby” mug.Wow, Sjoerd really pulled a Pippi there.
Merijn was throwing up all over the place, he pulled that Pippi really hard.
To pull a Pippi, is something I don't want to do tonight, I have golf tomorrow morning.
Merijn was throwing up all over the place, he pulled that Pippi really hard.
To pull a Pippi, is something I don't want to do tonight, I have golf tomorrow morning.
by Philipmaybe September 22, 2017
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