universal staircase n.
a prison treadmill.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 415/2: The beaks got up to the dodge, and all the Spanish lurksmen in their turns got to work the universal staircase [...] (Tothill-fields treadmill). |
a prison treadmill.
| (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 415/2: The beaks got up to the dodge, and all the Spanish lurksmen in their turns got to work the universal staircase [...] (Tothill-fields treadmill). |