"panier de crabes" meaning in French

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      "expansion": "Literally, “basket of crabs”",
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  "etymology_text": "Literally, “basket of crabs”.",
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    {
      "form": "paniers de crabes",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Elie Fournier, La guerre de Vendée n'aura pas lieu, Editions Uinversitaires, →ISBN, 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "rat race; any organization where people metaphorically claw at one another to come out on top"
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      "id": "en-panier_de_crabes-fr-noun-HgMii2Ji",
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    {
      "ipa": "/pa.nje də kʁab/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "panier de crabes"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “basket of crabs”.",
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    {
      "form": "paniers de crabes",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Elie Fournier, La guerre de Vendée n'aura pas lieu, Editions Uinversitaires, →ISBN, 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.",
          "type": "quote"
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