totem pole

The totem pole was the second one to stand here.

A. I was the low man on the totem pole.

As a military man, he knew his place on the totem pole was low.

We were not, you might say, high on the totem pole.

In fact, it's actually a little totem pole like you're talking about.

The people doing the science and the *actual* work are at the bottom of the totem pole.

After a while I went to the camera in the totem pole.

That's what happens when you're the low man on the totem pole.

The reality is that you're probably too low on the totem pole to do so.

For those lower down on the totem pole, life has not become easier.