upper-crust
Adjective
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Adjective
upper-crust
- (idiom, informal) Posh, upper-class; pertaining to the upper crust.
- An upper-crust London party.
- They're aiming for a more upper-crust clientele.
- 1989, Roy Thomas, Japan: The Blighted Blossom, page 172 ↗,
- In 1986, Takako Doi was elected leader of the Japan Socialist Party; another woman is the president of Takashimaya, Japan's most upper-crust department store chain.
- 1993, Alice Adams, Almost Perfect, 1998, page 192 ↗,
- But Prentice had grown up richer and more upper-crust than Richard had any idea of.
- 2012, J. A. Jance, Left for Dead, page 43 ↗,
- That was another story, and the retirees who frequented the relatively lowbrow kino Ridge were more likely than the more upper-crust folks at Amado or Rio Rico to shut up and pay their fines than they were to hire criminal defense attorneys.
- French: huppé
- Spanish: de alto copete, de alto coturno
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