at the top of the tree
Meaning
at the top of the tree
(informal, figuratively) At the highest level.
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Examples
A coconut plucker who climbed a coconut tree at the Wadduwa Police Station on Sunday (22) fell unconscious while at the top of the tree.
Some paintings in the present exhibition reveal the influence of mythology, too: the fox, having failed to reach the grapes at the top of the tree, claiming they are not ripe anyway.