moving staircase

noun

moving staircase

noun

1

UK An escalator.

In terms of the income scale British society has been compared to a group of people on a moving staircase. While the staircase as a whole moves upwards the relative position of the people on it remains largely unchanged.2008, John Irwin, Modern Britain: An Economic and Social History, page 27:

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