VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Pecking Order

Meaning:

Hierarchy, rank of importance

Examples:

  • You know the pecking order in this house?
  • Each party chooses the pecking order of candidates in each list.
  • We have a nice little pecking order at work.
  • Rules and a strict pecking order are what they seek.
  • I know there's a pecking order for tennis shoes.
  • Oh, there is a pecking order.
  • Shouldn't there be some sort of pecking order based off time put in at the club?
  • The issue of housing is one of the most pressing issues in the pecking order of living needs.
  • They stood at attention, to the rear or side of their master, as the Service-to-Self orientation requires a strict pecking order.
  • But for many people lower down the pecking order, who think of themselves as solidly and boringly middle class, the same is true.