snakes and ladders

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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.

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We spent the rainy afternoon playing snakes and ladders, cheering whenever a ladder boosted us and groaning when a snake sent us backward.

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意味（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.

意味（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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