"panier de crabes" meaning in French

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          "ref": "1888, Maurice Thompson, The Story of Louisiana, D. Lothrop company, page 204",
          "text": "La ville est un panier de crabes.",
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          "ref": "1945, Jacques Maritain, Pour la justice: Articles Et Discours (1940–1945), Éditions de la Maison française, page 188",
          "text": "On considère un peu les Français comme un panier de crabes.",
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          "ref": "1988, Elie Fournier, La guerre de Vendée n'aura pas lieu, Editions Uinversitaires, page 268",
          "text": "Marat, envolé au Panthéon des grands hommes, a laissé après lui sur terre une Assemblée dont il avait fait un panier de crabes.",
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          "ref": "1970, Albert Merglen, La naissance des mercenaires, Arthaud, page 135",
          "text": "Saigon est un panier de crabes comme Vichy en 1942 ou Alger en 1943.",
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        "rat race; any organization where people metaphorically claw at one another to come out on top"
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          "ref": "1945, Jacques Maritain, Pour la justice: Articles Et Discours (1940–1945), Éditions de la Maison française, page 188",
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