white-shoe
白鞋,白靴,白蹄,白脚趾
Definitions
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- : of or relating to members of the upper class who own or run large corporations: white-shoe bankers; a conservative white-shoe image.
Examples
The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.
If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.
There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.
The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.
But after winning 55 percent of the white vote, Duke had a database of supporters some politicians coveted.
And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?