1. trickle down - Adjective
2. trickle down - Verb
3. trickle down - Phrase
(economics) To pass from high-ranked people to lower-ranked people
The CEO's benefits are unlikely to trickle down to the factory workers.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trickle, down.
That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others.
(economics) Describing the theory that financial benefits given to the wealthy will somehow be passed down to the poor.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgtrickle-down
Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it. Barack Obama
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. Andrew Mellon
I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me. Dylan McDermott
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. Warren Buffett
There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect. Michelle Pfeiffer
We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called trickle down. That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it. Bill Maher