snakes and ladders

uncountable figuratively

A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.

Japanese Meaning

子供向けの運任せのボードゲーム。インド起源で、数字が書かれた盤上で遊び、目的はゴールに到達することであり、途中で梯子が進行を助け、蛇が後退を強いる役割を果たす。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

私たちは雨の午後を、マス目に沿って進んでゴールを目指すインド発祥の子供向けの運任せのボードゲーム（はしごが進行を助け、蛇が妨げる）をして過ごし、はしごで上がるたびに歓声を上げ、蛇に当たって後退するたびにうめきました。

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Sense（1）

A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.

Sense（2）

(figuratively) any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random

Teachers, senior teachers, and principal teachers would have built-in status and the scales would offer well-defined career prospects instead of the ambiguous and often misleading snakes-and-ladders situation which at present exists.

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