| 单词 | city gent |
| 释义 | > as lemmascity gent city gent n. British colloquial a man who works in the City of London or in the financial or business sectors.Sometimes depicted stereotypically wearing a pinstripe suit and bowler hat and carrying an umbrella. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer > capitalist or financier > in the City city gent1786 city man1836 1786 R. Burns Poems 205 Do ye envy the city-gent, Behind a kist to lie an' sklent. 1844 W. M. Thackeray in New Monthly Mag. July 421 Once..I heard a city ‘gent’ speak..slightingly of a glass of very excellent brown sherry. 1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 60 Not a dapper city gent, but a cricketer. 1989 Third Way Jan. 7/2 You would expect city gents to vote Tory and Yorkshire miners to vote Labour. 2003 P. D. Britton & S. J. Barker Reading Between Designs i. 13 His crisp, buttoned-up image..was based on another British cliché, namely the pinstripe-clad toff or city gent. < as lemmas |
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