pull the ladder up after oneself

Verb

 * 1) * 2014, Nicola Wells, "Belief To Succeed", InBUSINESS, Quarter One 2014, page 51:
 * Basically if you are on the up, don't pull the ladder up after you!
 * 1) * 2018, Ciaran Staunton, quoted in "Hibernia: Quote Unquote", Irish America, June/July 2018, page 31:
 * It is un-American to pull the ladder up after you; the American way is to pass it down to the next person, and silence is complicity when it comes to this.
 * 1) * 2018, Ciaran Staunton, quoted in "Hibernia: Quote Unquote", Irish America, June/July 2018, page 31:
 * It is un-American to pull the ladder up after you; the American way is to pass it down to the next person, and silence is complicity when it comes to this.