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| ไต่เต้า dtaiL dtaoF |  |
| Royal Institute - 1982 | ||||
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| pronunciation guide | |
| Phonemic Thai | ไต่-เต้า |
| IPA | tàj tâw |
| Royal Thai General System | tai tao |
| [verb, intransitive, phrase, colloquial, idiom] | |||
| definition | [use with a career or an organization] to climp up to a higher position | ||
| components |  ไต่  | dtaiL | to climb; to scale (a mountain); to move up slowly and carefully |
| เต้า | dtaoF | to go | |
| related word | ใช้เต้าไต่ | chaiH dtaoF dtaiL | [informal idiom literally meaning any woman who] "uses her breasts to climb up the career stairs"—using sex or body to pave the way for her promotion. This is an intended (reversed) pun of ไต่เต้า.  |
| example | ไต่เต้าขึ้น | dtaiL dtaoF kheunF | [career] to climb up |
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