Meanings of greasy pole in English

From then on, Julian reckoned, he'd been climbing the greasy pole.

The process has been a little like climbing a greasy pole.

Meanwhile, the questions over his speedy ascent up the greasy pole will only multiply.

Up the greasy pole and then letting go.

They learned of that barbarous punishment known as "the greasy pole" used upon girl prisoners.

The skinny leg style is still shinning up the greasy pole but lengths are shorter and neater.

Sucking up on Facebook and LinkedIn can help you climb that greasy pole -but what exactly are the rules?

The rest of the film is devoted to Ian McKellen climbing up the greasy pole to fame, if not fortune.

THE greasy pole up any management hierarchy today is invariably overcrowded with fellow aspirants but not totally without a value system.

While many politicians have indeed climbed the greasy pole by breaching the people's trust, doing so is neither necessary nor desirable.

You just don't survive at the top of the greasy pole if you're a humble little cop piously shuffling files around.

As recently as 2008 they were in a European Cup semi-final; it has been a dispiriting slither down the Premiership's greasy pole.

There were rowing races and diving competitions and a greasy pole and very probably a comic man dressed up as a buoy.

Hillary could hear it now: ambitious bitch, there she goes again, dissembling, scheming, shimmying up the greasy pole with no regard for principle.

This method of punishment consisted of strapping girls with their hands tied behind them to a greasy pole from which they were partly suspended.

But closing the gender pay gap will also require changes to corporate cultures where men are more likely than women to climb the greasy pole.