# prop up

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/prop-up
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To be at the bottom of (a league).

## Examples

- That team continues to prop up the league table.
- Despite their best efforts, the local club continues to prop up the league after losing ten games in a row.
- The struggling team, having failed to secure a single victory all season, finds itself once again left to prop up the rest of the division.

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