"pull the ladder up after oneself" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls the ladder up after oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling the ladder up after oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled the ladder up after oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled the ladder up after oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull the ladder up after oneself (third-person singular simple present pulls the ladder up after oneself, present participle pulling the ladder up after oneself, simple past and past participle pulled the ladder up after oneself)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pull the ladder up behind oneself"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 1, Reid Oslin, “Long-time Trustee James Cleary Dies”, in The Boston College Chronicle, Chestnut Hill, MA, page 6:",
          "text": "“There are a lot of people who have achieved success, but then pulled the ladder up after them,” [John M.] Connors added.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Nicola Wells, \"Belief To Succeed\", InBUSINESS, Quarter One 2014, page 51",
          "text": "Basically if you are on the up, don't pull the ladder up after you!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Ciaran Staunton, quoted in \"Hibernia: Quote Unquote\", Irish America, June/July 2018, page 31",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of pull the ladder up behind oneself."
      ],
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          "pull the ladder up behind oneself",
          "pull the ladder up behind oneself#English"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Alternative form of pull the ladder up behind oneself."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull the ladder up after oneself"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls the ladder up after oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling the ladder up after oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled the ladder up after oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled the ladder up after oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull the ladder up after oneself (third-person singular simple present pulls the ladder up after oneself, present participle pulling the ladder up after oneself, simple past and past participle pulled the ladder up after oneself)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pull the ladder up behind oneself"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 1, Reid Oslin, “Long-time Trustee James Cleary Dies”, in The Boston College Chronicle, Chestnut Hill, MA, page 6:",
          "text": "“There are a lot of people who have achieved success, but then pulled the ladder up after them,” [John M.] Connors added.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Nicola Wells, \"Belief To Succeed\", InBUSINESS, Quarter One 2014, page 51",
          "text": "Basically if you are on the up, don't pull the ladder up after you!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Ciaran Staunton, quoted in \"Hibernia: Quote Unquote\", Irish America, June/July 2018, page 31",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of pull the ladder up behind oneself."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pull the ladder up behind oneself",
          "pull the ladder up behind oneself#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Alternative form of pull the ladder up behind oneself."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "pull the ladder up after oneself"
}