Idiom idiom
everlasting staircase
Meaning
A prison treadmill.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The prisoner spent his long days on the everlasting staircase.”
“The guards forced the inmates to walk the everlasting staircase as a form of hard labor.”
“Condemned to the monotony of the everlasting staircase, the prisoner found his spirit slowly breaking under the weight of the endless, repetitive climb.”
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Last updated August 10, 2026