mondo a scale

Questo mondo è fatto a scale, chi le scende e chi le sale.

The world is a ladder - some are coming down and some are going up.

The down and up here refer to people's fortunes - the good and bad things that happen in love, money, health, etc.

Grammatically it's a great reminder of the direct object pronoun "le", referring to "scale" and placed of course before the verb. C4N!