everlasting staircase

idiom

Meaning

A prison treadmill.

Examples

SIMPLE

The prisoner spent his long days on the everlasting staircase.

CONTEXTUAL

The guards forced the inmates to walk the everlasting staircase as a form of hard labor.

COMPLEX

Condemned to the monotony of the everlasting staircase, the prisoner found his spirit slowly breaking under the weight of the endless, repetitive climb.

Anchors to

everlasting
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staircase wit
The thinking of an idea or course of action too late to use it effectively, or the tendency to do so.